Northwestern wolf
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Not to be confused with Interior Alaskan wolf.
The northwestern wolf (Canis lupus occidentalis), also known as the Mackenzie Valley wolf,[5] Alaskan timber wolf,[6] or Canadian timber wolf,[7] is a subspecies of gray wolf in western North America. Arguably the largest gray wolf subspecies in the world, it ranges from Alaska, the upper Mackenzie River Valley; southward throughout the western Canadian provinces, aside from prairie landscapes in its southern portions, as well as the Northwestern United States.[6]
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Northwestern wolf Canis lupus occidentalis | |
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C. l. occidentalis at the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center at West Yellowstone, Montana. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Canidae |
Genus: | Canis |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | C. l. occidentalis |
Trinomial name | |
Canis lupus occidentalis Richardson, 1829[2] | |
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