Ursus arctos lasiotus

Ursus arctos lasiotus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ursida

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Subclassis: Trechnotheria Infraclassis: Zatheria Supercohors: Theria Cohors: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Cladus: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Cladus: Ferae Ordo: Carnivora Subordo: Caniformia Infraordo: Arctoidea Parvordo: Ursida

Familia: Ursidae
Genus: Ursus
Species: Ursus arctos
Subspecies: Ursus arctos lasiotus

Name

Ursus arctos lasiotus Gray, 1867: 301 ["Ursus lasiotus"]

• Type locality: “North China.”

Synonymy

• Melanarctos cavifrons Heude, 1901: 1. Type locality: “Tsitsihar, Heilungkiang, China.”
• Ursus arctos baikalensis Ognev, 1924: 5. Type locality: “Irkutsk, Russia.”
• Ursus arctos lasiotus [current combination]
• Ursus arctus yesoensis Lydekker, 1897: 422, figs. 3–4. Type locality: “Yezo, the northern island of Japan.”
• Ursus ferox Temminck, 1844: 29. Type locality: “Jezo, Japon.” [preoccupied by Rafinesque, 1817: 437, nomen nudum. Type locality: “western America,”]
• Ursus lasiotus Gray, 1867: 301 [Protonym]
• Ursus melanarctos Heude, 1898: 17. Type locality: “Hakodae, Hokkaido, Japan.”
• ?Ursus torquatus macneilli Lydekker, 1909: 608. Type locality: “westward of Ta-chien, eastern Tibet, China.” [listed in MSW3, but actually a synonym of Ursus thibetanus mupinensis]

References

Primary references

• Gray, J.E. 1867. Note on Ursus lasiotus, a hairy-eared Bear from North China. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology Series 3. 20(118): 301. BHL DOI: 10.1080/00222936708694139. Reference page. 
• Temminck, C.J. & Schlegel, H. "1842" [1842–45]. Mammalia. In: Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam, jussu et auspiciis superiorum, qui summum in India Batava imperium tenent, suscepto, annis 1823–1830 collegit, notis, observationibus et adumbrationibus illustravit Ph. Fr. de Siebold. BHL Reference page. 
• Lydekker, R. 1897. The Blue Bear of Tibet, with Notes on the Members of the Ursus arctus Group. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 65(2): 412–426. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1897.tb00025.x
• Lydekker, R. 1909. On the Skull of a Black Bear from Eastern Tibet, with a Note on the Formosan Bear. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 607–610.
• Ognev, S.I. 1924. On the bears occurring in Russia. Nature and sport in Ukraine 1-2: 1-8. (in Russian)

Additional references

• Baryshnikov, G., Mano, T. & Masuda, R. 2004. Taxonomic differentiation of Ursus arctos (Carnivora, Ursidae) from south Okhotsk Sea islands on the basis of morphometrical analysis of skull and teeth. Russian Journal of Theriology 3(2): 77-88. DOI: 10.15298/rusjtheriol.03.2.05
• Pasitschniak-Arts, M. 1993. Ursus arctos. Mammalian Species (439): 1–10. DOI: 10.2307/3504138.

Links

• Ursus arctos lasiotus in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
• Ursus arctos lasiotus Gray, 1867 – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Vernacular names

English: Ezo Brown Bear
日本語: エゾヒグマ

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