Mogollon mountain wolf

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Mogollon mountain wolf
The Wolves of North America (1944) Black range wolf NM.png
Captive specimen in Black Range, New Mexico
Extinct  (1960)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Subfamily: Caninae
Genus: Canis
Species:
C. lupus
Subspecies:
†C. l. mogollonensis
Trinomial name
†Canis lupus mogollonensis
Goldman, 1937 [1]
North American gray wolf subspecies distribution according to Goldman (1944) & MSW3 (2005).png
Historical and present range of gray wolf subspecies in North America

The Mogollon mountain wolf (Canis lupus mogollonensis) is an extinct subspecies of gray wolf whose range once included Arizona and New Mexico. It is darker than its more northern cousins, and has a highly arched frontal bone. [2]

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Taxonomy

This wolf is recognized as a subspecies of Canis lupus in the taxonomic authority Mammal Species of the World (2005). [3]

Because of its overlapping range with the Mexican wolf (C. l. baileyi), along with the Texas wolf (C. l. monstrabilis), it was proposed by biologists Bogan and Mehlhop for the Mogollon mountain wolf and the Texas wolf to be considered subspecies as the Mexican wolf. This was because the Mogollon mountain wolf was seen as merely a possible middle subspecies between the Mexican wolf and the Southern Rocky Mountains wolf, thus making it unnecessary to distinguish taxonomically. This was accepted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service in 1982 and a "zone of subspecies intergradation" was recognized soon thereafter, extending from the southern Rocky Mountains to the northern tip of the Mexican wolf's range. [4]

The NCBI/Genbank has an entry for Canis lupus mogollonensis [5] and a separate entry for Canis lupus baileyi.

Extinction

By 1927, native wolves were extirpated from New Mexico, the only concern for wolfers were vagrant wolves from Mexico. [6] [7] . The final wolf kill in Arizona occurred in March 1960, in the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. [8]

References

  1. ↑ E. A. Goldman (1937). "The Wolves of North America". Journal of Mammalogy. 18 (1): 37–45. doi:10.2307/1374306. JSTOR   1374306.
  2. ↑ Glover, A. (1942), Extinct and vanishing mammals of the western hemisphere, with the marine species of all the oceans, American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, pp. 218-219.
  3. ↑ Wozencraft, W. C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 575–577. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494. url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JgAMbNSt8ikC&pg=PA576
  4. ↑ Carroll, C., M. K. Phillips, and C. A. Lopez-Gonzalez (2005) Spatial analysis of restoration potential and population viability of the wolf (Canis lupus) in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico [ permanent dead link ]. Klamath Center for Conservation Research mirror
  5. ↑ "Canis lupus mogollonensis". NCBI.NLM.NIH.gov. National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Institutes of Health.
  6. ↑ Tobias, Michael Charles; Morrison, Jane Gray (2016-12-20). Anthrozoology: Embracing Co-Existence in the Anthropocene. Springer. ISBN   978-3-319-45964-6.
  7. ↑ Murie, Olaus Johan; Bailey, Vernon (1931). Mammals of New Mexico. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 307.
  8. ↑ Dollar, Tom (1998). Guide to Arizona's Wilderness Areas. Big Earth Publishing. p. 20. ISBN   978-1-56579-280-7.
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