Ursus maritimus Phipps 1774

Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774. Voyage Towards North Pole, p. 185. TYPE LOCALITY: "on the main land of Spitsbergen" [Norway]. DISTRIBUTION: Circumpolar in the Arctic, S limits determined by ice pack. STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Vulnerable. SYNONYMS: eogroenlandicus Knotterus-Meyer, 1...

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Main Author: W. Christopher Wozencraft
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Ursidae
Ursus
Ursus maritimus
North Pole
Spitsbergen
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7288843
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Summary:Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774. Voyage Towards North Pole, p. 185. TYPE LOCALITY: "on the main land of Spitsbergen" [Norway]. DISTRIBUTION: Circumpolar in the Arctic, S limits determined by ice pack. STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Vulnerable. SYNONYMS: eogroenlandicus Knotterus-Meyer, 1908; groenlandicus Birula, 1932; jenaensis Knotterus-Meyer, 1908; labradorensis Knotterus-Meyer, 1908; marinus Pallas, 1776; polaris Shaw, 1792; spitzbergensis Knotterus-Meyer, 1908; ungavensis Knottnerus-Meyer, 1908. COMMENTS: Revised by Wilson (1976). Reviewed by DeMaster and Stirling (1981, Mammalian Species, 145). Placed in subgenus Thalarctos by Gromov and Baranova (1981). Sister species to arctos (Goldman et al., 1989; Shields and Kocher, 1991). Published as part of W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 339, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191

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