Wolf

phylum	Chordata	The gray wolf or grey wolf (Canis lupus) is a species of canid native to the wilderness and remote areas of North America, Eurasia, and North Africa. The gray wolf is one of the world's most well researched animals, with probably more books written about it than any other wildlife species. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Canidae
class	Mammalia
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Carnivora
suborder	Caniformia
family	Canidae
genus	Canis
species	C. lupus

A black wolf is a melanistic colour variant of the grey wolf (Canis lupus). Black specimens are recorded among red wolves (Canis lupus rufus), but these colour variants are probably extinct. Genetic research from the Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of California, Los Angeles revealed that wolves with black pelts owe their distinctive coloration to a mutation which occurred in domestic dogs, and was carried to wolves through wolf-dog hybridisation. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Gray wolf

phylum	Chordata	The Arctic wolf , also called snow wolf or white wolf, is a subspecies of the gray wolf. Arctic wolves inhabit the Canadian Arctic, Alaska and the northern parts of Greenland. They also have white fur and long canine teeth for killing their prey. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Canidae
class	Mammalia
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Carnivora
suborder	Caniformia
family	Canidae
genus	Canis
species	C. lupus arctos

phylum	Chordata	The Hokkaidō wolf, known in Japan as the Ezo wolf (エゾオオカミ（蝦夷狼）), is one of the two extinct subspecies of Canis lupus that have been called the Japanese wolf. The other is the Honshū wolf. This endemic wolf of Japan occupied the island of Hokkaidō. The Hokkaidō wolf was larger than the Honshū wolf, more closely approaching the size of a regular gray wolf. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Canidae
class	Mammalia
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Carnivora
suborder	Caniformia
family	Canidae
genus	Canis
subspecies	C. lupus hattai

phylum	Chordata	The Iberian wolf(Canis lupus signatus) is a subspecies of grey wolf that inhabits the forest and plains of northern Portugal and northwestern Spain. The 2003 census estimated the total Iberian population to be 2,000 wolves. The Iberian wolf is considered a synonym of Canis lupus lupus by Mammal Species of the World, although its skull morphometrics, mtDNA, and microsatellite differ from other European wolves. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Canidae
class	Mammalia
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Carnivora
suborder	Caniformia
family	Canidae
genus	Canis
subspecies	C. lupus signatus

phylum	Chordata	The Honshū wolf, known in Japan as the Japanese wolf or Mountain dog, is one of the two extinct subspecies of the gray wolf once endemic to the islands of Japan. The Honshū wolf occupied the islands of Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū in Japan. Honshū wolves, the smaller descendants of gray wolves, were plentiful in the country of Japan. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Canidae
class	Mammalia
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Carnivora
suborder	Caniformia
family	Canidae
genus	Canis
subspecies	C. lupus hodophilax

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