Wouf
A wouf (Canis lupus) is sib tae a dug. The speshies wis the warld's maist widely distribute mammal but haes become extinct in hintle o Wastren Europe, in Mexico an hintle o the Unitit States. Wouves occur primarily but no exclusively in wilderness an remote auries. Thair oreeginal warldwide range haes been reducit bi aboot ane-third bi deliberate persecution due tae depredation on livestock an fear o attacks on humans. Tho the species still faces some threats, it is relatively widespread wi a stable population trend an haes been assessed as Least Concern bi IUCN syne 2004 acause o that.
Gray wouf | |
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Eurasie wouf (Canis lupus lupus). | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Faimily: | Canidae |
Genus: | Canis |
Species: | C. lupus |
Binomial name | |
Canis lupus | |
Subspeshies | |
Historical (reid + green) an modren (green) range o wild subspeshies o C. lupus |
References
eedit- ↑ Tedford, Richard H.; Wang, Xiaoming; Taylor, Beryl E. (2009). "Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 325: 1–218. doi:10.1206/574.1. hdl:2246/5999. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 25 Mey 2017. Retrieved 13 Julie 2019.
- ↑ Boitani, L., Phillips, M. & Jhala, Y. (2018). "Canis lupus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2018: e.T3746A119623865. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T3746A119623865.en.CS1 maint: uises authors parameter (link)
- ↑ Linnæus, Carl (1758). "Canis Lupus". Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I (in Latin) (10 ed.). Holmiæ (Stockholm): Laurentius Salvius. pp. 39–40.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
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