Manitoba wolf | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Canidae |
Genus: | Canis |
Species: | |
Subspecies: |
†C. l. griseoalbus
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Trinomial name | |
†Canis lupus griseoalbus Baird, 1858
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Historical and present range of gray wolf subspecies in North America | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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The Manitoba wolf (Canis lupus griseoalbus), also known as the grey-white wolf, [3] is an extinct subspecies of gray wolf that roamed in the southern Northwest Territories, northern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and south-central Manitoba. This wolf is recognized as a subspecies of Canis lupus in the taxonomic authority Mammal Species of the World (2005). [4]
In the early 19th century, John Richardson first cataloged the Manitoba wolf and gave it its taxonomic name. [5] The species itself was highly prized for its fur [6] and was hunted to extinction in the wild in the early 20th century.