tundra wolf (Canis lupus albus) Description
Français : Loup de sibérie du Parc à Loups du Gévaudan
Date 23 July 2010
Author Patrick Jacob
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loups_siberie.jpg
The tundra wolf (Canis lupus albus), also known as the Turukhan wolf, is a subspecies of grey wolf native to Eurasia's tundra and forest-tundra zones from Finland to the Kamchatka Peninsula. It was first described in 1792 by Robert Kerr, who described it as living around the Yenisei, and of having a highly valued pelt.
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Genus: Canis
Species: Canis lupus
Subspecies: Canis lupus albus Kerr, 1792
Synonyms:
Canis lupus dybowskii (Domaniewski, 1926)
Canis lupus kamtschaticus (Dybowski, 1922)
Canis lupus turuchanensis (Ognev, 1923)
