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There are 38 Subspecies of Canis Lupus listed in the taxonomic authority Mammal Species of the World (2005, 3rd edition). These subspecies were named over the past 250 years, and since their naming, a number of them have gone extinct. The nominate subspecies is the Eurasian wolf (Canis Lupus Lupus)
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Skulls of various wolf subspecies from North America
Scientific classification : Kingdom : Animalia Phylum : Chordata Class : Mammalia Order : Carnivora Family : Canidae Subtribe : Canina Genus : Canis Species : C. Lupus Binomial name : Canis Lupus Subspecies : Numerous and disputed
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Present range of wild subspecies of C. Lupus. This map uses the more broadly defined North American subspecies of Nowak (1995), but see also the map under the section titled North America
Taxonomy :
In 1753, the Swedish botanists and zoologist. Carl Linnaeus published in his history Systema Nature the binomial nomenclature - or the two-word naming - of species. Canis is the Latin word meaning dog, and under this genus he listed the dog-like carnivores including domestic dogs, wolves, and jackals. He classified the domestic dog as Canis familiaris, and on the next page he classified the wolf as Canis Lupus. Linnaeus considered the dog to be a separate species from the wolf because of its cauda recurvata - its upturning tail - which is not found in any other canid
In 1999, a study of mitochondrial DNA indicated that the domestic dog may have originated from multiple wolf populations with the dingp and New Guinea singing dog breads having developed at a time when human populations were more isolated from each other. In the third edition of Mammal Species of the World published in 2005, the mammalogist W. Christopher Wozencraft listed under the wolf Canis Lupus some 36 wild subspecies, and proposed two additional subspecies: familiaris Linnaeus, 1758 and dingo Meyer, 1793. Wozencraft included hallstromi - the New Guinea singing dog - as a taxonomic synonym for the dingo. Wozencraft referred to the mDNA study as one of the guides in forming his decision, and listed the 38 subspecies under the biological common name of wolf, with the nominate subspecies being the Eurasian wolf (Canis Lupus Lupus) based on the type specimen that Linnaeus studied in Sweden. However, the classification of several of these canines as either species or subspecies has recently been challenged
