Description
Հայերեն: Canis-lupus
Date 20 June 2008, 20:18:55
Author Սերգեյ Զալինյան
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canis-lupus.jpg

The steppe wolf (Canis lupus campestris), also known as Caspian Sea wolf, is a subspecies of grey wolf native to the Caspian steppes, the steppe regions of the Caucasus, the lower Volga region, southern Kazakhstan north to the middle of the Emba, the northern Urals, and the steppe regions of the lower European part of the former Soviet Union. It may also occur in northern Afghanistan and Iran and occasionally the steppe regions of Romania and Hungary.
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Genus: Canis
Species: Canis lupus
Subspecies: Canis lupus campestris Dwigubski, 1804
Synonyms:
argunensis (Dybowski, 1922)
bactrianus (Laptev, 1929)
cubanenesis (Ognev, 1923)
desertorum (Bogdanov, 1882)