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Florida black wolf | |
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A Florida black wolf as drawn by James Audubon in Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Canidae |
Genus: | Canis |
Species: | |
Subspecies: |
†C. r. floridanus
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Trinomial name | |
†Canis rufus floridanus Miller, 1912
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Synonyms [2] | |
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The Florida black wolf (Canis rufus floridanus), [2] [3] also known as the Florida wolf and the black wolf, [4] is an extinct subspecies of red wolf [2] that was endemic to Florida.
This wolf is recognized as a subspecies of Canis lupus in the taxonomic authority Mammal Species of the World (2005). [2]
Currently, this canid is widely considered to be a subspecies of the red wolf Canis rufus [5] and that a variation in the red wolf's coloring led to the creation of the Florida black wolf. [6] It was believed by one author that instead of being a subspecies of the red wolf, it was actually a type of coyote. [7]