Hokkaido wolf
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The Hokkaido wolf, also known as the Ezo wolf and in Russia as the Sakhalin wolf, is an extinct subspecies of the gray wolf that once inhabited coastal northeast Asia. It was one of two subspecies tha
Yezo wolf at Hokkaido University
Specimen in Hokkaido Museum
Dusicyon australis
Subspecies of Canis lupus
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There are 38 subspecies of Canis lupus listed in the taxonomic authority Mammal Species of the World. These subspecies were named over the past 250 years, and since their naming, a number of them have
Hokkaido wolf
…wolf (Canis lupus hattai), also known as the Ezo wolf (Japanese: エゾオオカミ（蝦夷狼）ー, Hepburn: Ezo Ōkami) and in Russia as the Sakhalin wolf, is an extinct subspecies of the gray wolf that once inhabited coastal northeast Asia. It was one of two subspecies that were once found in the Japanese archipelago, the other being the Japanese…
Skulls of various wolf subspecies from North America
Skull of a European wolf
Skull of a Canadian wolf
Giuseppe Altobello's 1925 comparative illustration of the skulls and dentition of C. l. lupus (a) and C. l. italicus (b). The distinct status of the latter is currently unrecognized by MSW3.