Ursus (genus)

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Kingdom Animalia Order Carnivora Family Ursidae Scientific name Ursus Speed polar bear: 40 km/h		Phylum Chordata Suborder Caniformia Subfamily Ursinae Higher classification Bear Rank genus

Mass brown bear: 80 – 600 kg, polar bear: 450 kg, American black bear: 110 kg Height brown bear: 70 – 150 cm, Polar bear: 2 m Lower classifications Brown bear, Polar bear, American black bear, Asian black bear, Cave bear

evolution of the genus Ursus

Ursus is a genus in the family Ursidae (bears) that includes the widely distributed brown bears, the polar bear, and black bears. The name is derived from the Latin ursus, meaning bear.

Ursus (genus) Syrian brown bear Wikipedia

Species and subspecies of Ursus

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† Ursus abstrusus

American black bear, Ursus americanus

U. a. altifrontalis – Olympic black bear

U. a. amblyceps – New Mexico black bear

U. a. americanus – Eastern black bear

U. a. californiensis – California black bear

U. a. carlottae – Haida Gwaii black bear or Queen Charlotte black bear

U. a. cinnamomum – cinnamon bear

U. a. emmonsii – glacier bear

U. a. eremicus – Mexican black bear

U. a. floridanus – Florida black bear

U. a. hamiltoni – Newfoundland black bear

U. a. kermodei – Kermode bear or spirit bear

U. a. luteolus – Louisiana black bear

U. a. machetes – West Mexico black bear

U. a. perniger – Kenai black bear

U. a. pugnax – Dall black bear

U. a. vancouveri – Vancouver Island black bear

Brown bear, Ursus arctos

U. a. arctos – European brown bear

U. a. alascensis – Alaskan brown bear

U. a. collaris – East Siberian brown bear

U. a. beringianus – Kamchatka brown bear

†U. a. crowtheri – Atlas bear, (extinct)

†U. a. dalli – Dall brown bear (possibly extinct?)

U. a. gobiensis – Gobi bear

U. a. horribilis – grizzly bear

U. a. isabellinus – Himalayan brown bear

U. a. lasiotus – Ussuri brown bear

U. a. marsicanus – Marsican brown bear

U. a. middendorffi – Kodiak bear

U. a. nelsoni – Mexican grizzly bear (extinct?)

U. a. piscator – Bergman'S bear (extinct?)

U. a. pruinosus – Tibetan blue bear

U. a. sitkensis – Sitka brown bear

U. a. syriacus –– Syrian brown bear

† Ursus arvernensis

† Deninger's bear, Ursus deningeri

† Etruscan bear, Ursus etruscus

† Gamssulzen cave bear, Ursus ingressus

† Gran Dolina bear, Ursus dolinensis

† MacFarlane's bear, Ursus inopinatus (cryptid; if an authentic Species, extinct)

† Pleistocene small cave bear, Ursus rossicus

† Ursus sackdillingensis

Polar bear, Ursus maritimus (earlier Thalarctos maritimus)

U. m. maritimus modern polar bear

† U. m. tyrannus Pleistocene polar bear (possibly a brown bear)

† Auvergne bear, Ursus minimus

† Cave bear, Ursus spelaeus

Asian black bear, Ursus thibetanus

U. T. formosanus - Formosan black bear,

U. t. gedrosianus – Baluchistan bear or Pakistan black bear

U. t. japonica – Japanese black bear

U. t. laniger – Himalayan black bear

U. t. mupinensis – Indochinese black bear

U. t. thibetanus – Tibetan black bear

U. t. ussuricus – Ussuri black bear

Ursus (genus) Brown Bear Ursus arctos iNaturalistorg

A hybrid between grizzly bears and polar bears has also been recorded. Known commonly as a pizzly, prizzly, or grolar bear, the official name is simply "grizzly–polar bear hybrid".

Ursus (genus) Grizzly bear Ursus arctos horribilis DinoAnimalscom

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