Ursus arctos piscator (Bergman, 1920)
Kamchatkan bear, Bergman's bear
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
This trinomial is often used in connection with the extant population of brown bears found today in Russia's Kamchatkan Peninsula.
Conservation Status
A hypothetical subspecies
Last record: c.1920 (Day, 1981)
Distribution
Kamchatkan Peninsula, Russia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Bergman, Sten. (1936). Observations on the Kamchatkan Bear. Journal of Mammalogy 17: 115-120.
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
Domico, Terry. (1988). Bears of the World. New York: Facts on File. [pp. 50-51].
Lemoine, Rhys Taylor, Buitenwerf, Robert, Faurby, Sören and Svenning, Jens-Christian. (2025). Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late-Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34(7): e70078. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70078 [Supporting Information: Data S1]
Revenko, Igor A. (1995). Status and Distribution of Brown Bears in Kamchatka, Russian Far East. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Bear Research and Management, Fairbanks, Alaska, 1995.
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