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--> FAMILY Ursidae
--> GENUS Ursus
SPECIES Ursus thibetanus
Author: | G.[Baron] Cuvier, 1823. | Citation: | Rech. Oss. Foss., Nouv. ed., 4: 325. | Common Name: | Asian Black Bear | Type Locality: | "Cet ours a été trouvé d'abord par M. Wallich dans les montagnes du Napaul, et je l'ai rencontré également dans celles du Sylhet" [India, Assam, Sylhet]. | Distribution: | Afghanistan, China, India, Indochina, Japan, North and ? South Korea, Laos, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Russia (SE Primorski Krai), Vietnam. | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; U. S. ESA – Endangered as U. t. gedrosianus; IUCN – Critically Endangered as U. t. gedrosinus, otherwise Vulnerable. | Comments: | Placed in subgenus Selenarctos by Gromov and Baranova (1981); and in subgenus Euarctos by Thenius (1979). Allen (1938) suggested a close relationship to U. americanus; Pocock (1932a) retained in a separate genus, there is molecular support for both positions (Goldman et al., 1989). Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951). |
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