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Genus URSUS

 

Linnaeus, 1758

 

 

1 ) Asiatic Black Bear - Ursus thibetanus - Ursus thibetanus Cuvier, 1823, Sylhet region (presently divided between Assam India and Bangladesh).

 

Subspecies and Distribution.

 

U. t. thibetanus Cuvier, 1823 - Nepal, NE India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodgia, Vietnam.

 

U. t. formosanus Swinhoe, 1864 - Taiwan.

 

U. t. gedrosianus Blanford, 1877 - SE Iran, C & S Pakistan.

 

U. t. japonicus Schlegel, 1857 - Japan.

 

U. t. laniger Pocock, 1932 - Himalayas from Afghanistan to N India.

 

U. t. mupinensis Heude, 1901 - C & S China.

 

U. t. ussuricus Heude, 1901 - Russian Far East, NE China, Korean Peninsula.

 

 

2 ) American Black Bear - Ursus americanus - Ursus americanus Pallas, 1780, eastern North America.

 

Subspecies and Distribution.

 

U. a. americanus Pallas, 1780 - Alaska to E Canada & E USA.

 

U. a. altifrontalis Elliot, 1903 - Pacific coast USA & Canada (S British Columbia). ( * )

 

U. a. amblyceps Baird, 1859 - SW USA.

 

U. a. californiensis J. Miller, 1900 - SW USA (interior California).

 

U. a. carlottae Osgood, 1901 - W Canada (Queen Charlotte Is).

 

U. a. cinnamomum Audubon & Bachman, 1854 - Rocky Mts of Canada & USA. ( * )

 

U. a. emmonsii Dall, 1895 - SE Alaska.

 

U. a. eremicus Merriam, 1904 - E Mexico.

 

U. a. floridanus Merriam, 1896 - SE USA (Florida).

 

U. a. hamiltoni Cameron, 1957 - E Canada (Newfoundland).

 

U. a. kermodei Hornaday, 1905 - W Canada (coastal British Columbia).

 

U. a. luteolus Griffith, 1821 - S USA (Louisiana).

 

U. a. machetes Elliot, 1903 - W Mexico.

 

U. a. perniger J.A. Allen, 1910 - Alaska (Kenai Peninsula).

 

U. a. pugnax Swarth, 1911 - islands of SE Alaska.

 

U. a. vancouveri Hall, 1928 - SW Canada (Vancouver Is.).

 

 

3 ) Brown Bear - Ursus arctos - Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758, northern Sweden.

 

Subspecies and Distribution.

 

U. a. arctos Linnaeus, 1758 - Europe & W Russia. ( * )

 

U. a. alascensis Merriam, 1896 - most of Alaska (excluding Alaska Peninsula, SE panhandle & Kodiak Island group).

 

U. a. beringianus Middendorff, 1853 - NE Russia (Kamchatka Peninsula & N Kuril Island northward through the Koryak Autonomous District, and along W coast of the Sea of Okhotsk). ( * )

 

U. a. collaris Cuvier, 1824 - Russia (Siberia, from E of the Yenisey River to the Bering Sea, excluding Kamchatka and more southern parts of the Russian Far East), N Mongolia.

 

U. a. dalli Merriam, 1896 - SE Alaska (N of Alexander Archipelago).

 

U. a. gyas Merriam, 1902 - Alaska peninsula.

 

U. a. horribilis Ord, 1815 - W Canada (Yukon, North-West Territories, British Columbia & Alberta), inland W USA (extirpated from S Wyoming to Mexico). ( * )

 

U. a. isabellinus Horsfield, 1826 - N India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, N to Kazakhstan & Mongolia (Gobi Desert).

 

U. a. lasiotus Gray, 1867 - Russia (Southern Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Ussuri/Amur river region of the Russian Far East), NE China, North Korea, Japan (Hokkaido). ( * )

 

U. a. middendorffi Merriam, 1896 - Alaska (Kodiak Island & nearby islands).

 

U. a. pruinosus Blyth, 1853 - Tibetan Plateau, China, N Nepal.

 

U. a. sitkensis Merriam, 1896 - SE Alaska (Alexander Archipelago & adjacent coastal area).

 

U. a. stikeenensis Merriam, 1914 - W Canada (W British Columbia), W USA (W Washington & Oregon).

 

U. a. syriacus Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1828 - Middle East, from Turkey to Iran (extirpated in Syria), Caucasus mountains of Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan.

 

 

4 ) Polar Bear - Ursus maritimus - Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774, Spitsbergen, (Svalbard) Norway. ( * )

 

Distribution.

 

Arctic Ocean: Canada, USA (Alaska), Greenland, Norway (Svalbard), Russia.

 

 

 

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