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Ursus americanus Pallas 1780
Description
Ursus americanus Pallas, 1780. Spicil. Zool., 14:5.
TYPE LOCALITY: Eastern North America.
DISTRIBUTION: N. C. Alaska to Labrador and Newfoundland (Canada), south to C. California, N. Nevada (U.S.A.), N. Nayarit and S. Tamaulipas (Mexico), and Florida (U.S.A.).
COMMENT: Placed in subgenus Euarctos by Hall, 1981:947; and Thenius, 1979:293. Hendy, 1980:98, regarded Euarctos as a distinct genus.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301412002006002001.
Notes
Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 251, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF92FFAAFFD85854B97E533CFFF8E771 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ursidae
- Genus
- Ursus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Pallas
- Species
- americanus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ursus americanus Pallas, 1780 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982
References
- Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.
- Thenius, E. 1979. Zur systematischen und phylogenetischen Stellung des Bambusbaren: Ailuropoda melanoleuca David (Carnivora, Mammalia). Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 44 (5): 286 - 305.