Japanese wolf
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The Japanese wolf, also known as the Honshū wolf, is an extinct subspecies of the gray wolf that was once endemic to the islands of Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū in the Japanese archipelago.
Japanese Wolf
Mounted skeleton, National Museum of Nature and Science
Skull unearthed at the Aisawa Quarry of Miyata Lime Industry, dated 33,000–36,000 years old. The left lower jaw bone is 17.9 cm in length.
Mounted specimen in Ueno Zoo
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
Japanese wolf
…Shikoku, and Kyūshū in the Japanese archipelago. It was one of two subspecies that were once found in the Japanese archipelago, the other being the Hokkaido wolf. Genetic sequencing indicates that the Japanese wolf was highly divergent from living wolf populations. Despite long being revered in Japan, the…
Yezo wolf at Hokkaido University
Specimen in Hokkaido Museum
Dusicyon australis