Great Plains wolf (Canis lupus nubilus) Description
Gray Wolf Canis lupus at Seney National Wildlife Refuge, Michigan.
Date 15 August 2011, 14:15
Source Female Gray Wolf
Author Seney Natural History Association http://www.flickr.com/people/48492584@N07
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gray_Wolf_Seney_NWR_2.jpg
The Great Plains wolf (Canis lupus nubilus), also known as the buffalo wolf, dusky wolf or loafer, is a subspecies of gray wolf whose range once extended throughout the Great Plains from southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan southward to northern Texas.
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Genus: Canis
Species: C. lupus
Subspecies: Canis lupus nubilus Say, 1823
Synonyms: Canis lupus variabilis (Wied-Neuwied, 1841), labradorius, irremotus, youngi Goldman, 1937)
