Ursus maritimus Phipps 1774

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 589

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Ursus maritimus Phipps 1774 , Voyage Towards North Pole: 185.

Type Locality: "on the main land of Spitsbergen" [ Norway].

Vernacular Names: Polar Bear.

Synonyms: Ursus eogroenlandicus (Knottnerus-Meyer 1908) ; Ursus groenlandicus (Birula 1932) ; Ursus jenaensis (Knottnerus-Mayer 1908) ; Ursus labradorensis (Knottnerus-Meyer 1908) ; Ursus marinus Pallas 1776 ; Ursus polaris Shaw 1792 .

Distribution: Canada, Greenland, USA (Alaska), Russia. Circumpolar in the Arctic, S limits determined by ice pack.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).

Discussion: Revised by Wilson (1976). Reviewed by DeMaster and Stirling (1981). Placed in subgenus Thalarctos by Gromov and Baranova (1981). U. maritimus is considered the sister species to arctos ( Goldman et al., 1989; Shields and Kocher, 1991). Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Hall (1981).