| Subspecies: | 01. Ursus arctos arctos - Europe and W Russia
02. U.a. alascensis - most of Alaska (excludng Alaska Peninsula, SE panhandle & Kodiak Island group)
03. U.a. beringianus - NE Russia (Kamchatka Peninsula & N Kuril Islands northward through the Koryak Autonomous District and along W coast of the Sea of Okhotsk)
04. U.a. collaris - Russia (Siberia from E of the Yenisey River to the Bering Sea, but excluding Kamchatka and more southern parts of the Russian Far East), N Mongolia
05. U.a. dalli - SE Alaska (N of Alexander Archipelago)
06. U.a. gyas - Alaska peninsula
07. U.a. horriblis - W Canada (Yukon, North-West Territories, British Columbia & Alberta), inland W USA (extirpated from S Wyoming to Mexico)
08. U.a. isabellinus - N India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, N to Kazakhstan and Mongolia (Gobi Desert)
09. U.a. lasiotus - Russia (Southern Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Ussuri/Amur river region of the Russian Far East), NE China, North Korea and Japan (Hokkaido)
10. U.a. middendorffi - Alaska (Kodiak island and nearby islands)
11. U.a. pruinosus - Tibetan Plateau, CHina, N Nepal
12. U.a. sitkensis - SE Alaska (Alexander Archipelago & adjacent coastal area)
13. U.a. stikeensis - W Canada (W British Columbia) and formerly W USA (W Washington and Oregon)
14. U.a. syriacus - Middle East from Turkey to Iran (extirpated in Syria), Caucasus mountains of Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan
Wilson, Don E. / Mittermeier, Russell A. HANDBOOK OF THE MAMMALS OF THE WORLD; Vol. 1 - Carnivores, 2009 |
