Overview
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Common Names
Common Names in English:
Brown Bear, Grizzly Bear, Mexican Grizzly Bear
Description
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- Auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Mammalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Mammals
- Subclass:
Theriiformes
()
- (Rowe, 1988) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Infraclass:
Holotheria
()
- (Wible Et Al., 1995) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Superlegion:
Trechnotheria
()
- Mckenna, 1975
- Legion:
Cladotheria
()
- Mckenna, 1975
- Sublegion:
Zatheria
()
- Mckenna, 1975
- Infralegion:
Tribosphenida
()
- (Mckenna, 1975) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Supercohort:
Theria
()
- (Parker & Haswell, 1897) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Cohort:
Placentalia
()
- (Owen, 1837) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Magnorder:
Epitheria
()
- (Mckenna, 1975) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Superorder:
Preptotheria
()
- (Mckenna, 1975) Mckenna, in Stucky & Mckenna, in Benton, Ed., 1993
- Superorder:
Preptotheria
(
- Magnorder:
Epitheria
(
- Cohort:
Placentalia
(
- Supercohort:
Theria
(
- Infralegion:
Tribosphenida
(
- Sublegion:
Zatheria
(
- Legion:
Cladotheria
(
- Superlegion:
Trechnotheria
(
- Infraclass:
Holotheria
(
- Subclass:
Theriiformes
(
- Class:
Mammalia
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: October 28, 2003.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Ursus
There are approximately 84 species in this genus:
U. abstrusus · U. americana · U. americanus (American Black Bear) · U. americanus altifrontalis · U. americanus amblyceps · U. americanus americanus (American Black Bear) · U. americanus californiensis · U. americanus carlottae · U. americanus cinnamomum · U. americanus emmonsi · U. americanus emmonsii (Glacier Bear) · U. americanus eremicus · U. americanus floridanus (Florida Black Bear) · U. americanus hamiltoni · U. americanus kermodei (Kermode Black Bear) · U. americanus luteolus (Louisiana Black Bear) · U. americanus machetes · U. americanus perniger (Kenai Black Bear) · U. americanus pugnax · U. americanus subsp · U. americanus vancouveri · U. arctos (Mexican Grizzly Bear) · U. arctos alascensis · U. arctos arctos (Mexican Grizzly Bear) · U. arctos beringianus · U. arctos californicus (Bajan Bear) · U. arctos caucasicus (Mexican Grizzly Bear) · U. arctos crowtheri (Atlas Bear) · U. arctos dalli · U. arctos gyas · U. arctos horribilis (Grizzly Bear) · U. arctos horribilus · U. arctos isabellinus · U. arctos lasiotus · U. arctos meridionalis · U. arctos middendorff · U. arctos middendorffi (Mexican Grizzly Bear) · U. arctos middendorfi · U. arctos middendorfii · U. arctos nelsoni · U. arctos pruinosus (Mexican Grizzly Bear) · U. arctos richardsoni · U. arctos shanorum · U. arctos sitkensis · U. arctos stikeenensis · U. arctos subsp · U. arctos syriacus (Sirian Brown Bear) · U. arctos yesoensis · U. arctus · U. arvernensis · U. boeckhi · U. cancrivorus · U. deningeri · U. etruscus · U. horribilis · U. lasiotus · U. luteolus · U. malayanus · U. maritimus (Polar Bear) · U. maritimus marinus (Polar Bear) · U. maritimus maritimus (Polar Bear) · U. mediterraneus · U. melanoleucus · U. middendorffi (Alaskan Brown Bear) · U. minimus · U. nasutus · U. ornatus · U. ruscinensis · U. sackdillingensis · U. spaeleus · U. spelaearctos · U. spelaeus · U. taxus · U. thibetanus (Himalayan Black Bear) · U. thibetanus gedrosianus (Baluchistan Bear) · U. thibetanus japonicus · U. thibetanus laniger · U. thibetanus thibetanus (Himalayan Black Bear) · U. thibetanus ussuricus · U. torquatus arboreus · U. ursinus · U. ursinus ursinus · U. wenzensis · U. x
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Further Reading
- Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S Morrison-Scott 1966. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals: 1758-1946, Second Edition. Trustees of the British Museum of Natural History. London, England.
- Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- Thornback, J. and Jenkins, M. 1982. The IUCN Mammal Red Data Book. Part 1: Threatened mammalian taxa of the Americas and the Australasian zoogeographic region (excluding Cetacea). IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- W. Christopher Wozencraft: Status: CITES - Appendix I as Ursus arctos pruinosus; Appendix II. U.S. ESA - Endangered
- Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 1993. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, DC, USA. xviii + 1207. ISBN: 1-56098-217-9.
Notes
Contributors
- Bear Specialist Group 1996. Ursus arctos ssp. nelsoni. In: IUCN 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.redlist.org . Downloaded on 30 January 2005.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 12, 2006.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 18, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- NatureServe. 2003. Downloadable animal data sets. NatureServe Central Databases. Accessed February 6, 2005.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2721405
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-202386
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13907852
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 202386
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Identifier: A04Q
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 11521
