Published December 31, 1982 | Version v1
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Ursus maritimus Phipps 1774

Description

Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774. A Voyage Towards North Pole, p. 185.

TYPE LOCALITY: Norway, Spitzbergen Isis.

DISTRIBUTION: Circumpolar in the Arctic.

COMMENT: Placed in genus Ursus, subgenus Thalarctos by Gromov and Baranova, 1981:253, and in genus Thalarctos by Corbet, 1978:166. Reviewed by DeMaster and Stirling, 1981, Mamm. Species, 145:1-7.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as U. (— Thalarctos) maritimus.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412002006003001 as Ursus maritimus.

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 pages 251-252, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980

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Biodiversity

Family
Ursidae
Genus
Ursus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Carnivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Phipps
Species
maritimus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Gromov, I. M., and G. I. Baranova (eds.). 1981. Katalog mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Catalog of mammals of the USSR]. Nauka, Leningrad, 456 pp. (in Russian).
  • DeMaster, D. P., and I. Stirling. 1981. Ursus maritimus. Mammalian Species, 145: 1 - 7.