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1. At the top in light yellow, the species' name is shown together with, when applicable, its IUCN code (click on the code and you will be redirected to IUCN's webpage with detailed information about this threatened species) and, if you have ticked the species, a green tick to the right
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Wolf
Canis lupus
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Taxonomy and Distribution

Taxa

 Wolf Canis lupus (35979)
 Please don't twitch feral dogs here. Originally, the Grey Wolf was the world's most widely distributed mammal, living throughout the northern hemisphere north of 15°N latitude in North America and 12°N in India. It has become extinct in much of Western Europe (Boitani 1995), in Mexico and much of the USA (Mech 1970). Their present distribution is more restricted: wolves occur primarily in wilderness and remote areas, especially in Canada, Alaska and northern USA, Europe, and Asia from about 75°N to 12°N. Dingo: Australia; Cambodia; China; India; Indonesia; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Malaysia; Myanmar; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Thailand; Viet Nam
 albusNorthern Russia
 arabsPeninsular Arabia: Egypt (Sinai), Israel (southern), Jordan (southern), Iraq (southern), Kuwait, Saudi Arabia (north-east, southwest), Yemen, Oman; formerly all over the Arabian Penisnula, but now only in small pockets
 arctosCanadian Arctic islands and Greenland
 baileyiReintroduced into Arizona
 communisCentral Russia
 cubanensisRussia, between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea
 hattaiNorth Japan. Extinct
 hodophilaxSouth Japan. Extinct
 italicusItalian Apennines
 lupasterNorth Egypt and North East Libya.
 lupusFrom China, Mongolia, Russia and Eastern Europe to Germany, Spain and Portugal
 lycaonSouth East Canada
 nubilusFar West and Eastern Canada, North East USA
 occidentalisWestern Canada, Alaska, and reintroduced into North West USA
 pallipesFrom India to the Middle East
 dingoBased on fossil (Olsen and Olsen 1977), molecular (Vilà et al. 1997, Corbett 2003) and anthropological evidence (Corbett 1995), the early primitive dingoes formerly had a cosmopolitan distribution (Corbett 1995). The primitive dingoes were associated with nomadic, human hunter-gatherer societies and later with sedentary agricultural population centres where the primitive dingoes were tamed and subsequently transported around the world. Austronesian-speaking people transported the dingo from mainland Asia to Australia and other islands in Southeast Asia and the Pacific between 1,000 and 5,000 years ago (Corbett 1985). Pure dingoes have been demonstrated to occur only as remnant populations in central and northern Australia and throughout Thailand. However, based on external phenotypic characters, they may also occur in Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines and Viet Nam.


References

  • Canis lupus: Dyntaxa (2012) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at http://www.dyntaxa.se