Manitoba wolf

The Manitoba wolf (Canis lupus griseoalbus), also known as the grey-white wolf,^[3] is an extinct subspecies of gray wolf that roamed in the southern Northwest Territories, northern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and south-central Manitoba. This wolf is recognized as a subspecies of Canis lupus in the taxonomic authority Mammal Species of the World (2005).^[2]

Manitoba wolf
Conservation status
Extinct
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Canidae
Genus:	Canis
Species:	C. lupus
Subspecies:	†C. l. griseoalbus
Trinomial name
†Canis lupus griseoalbus Baird, 1858[1]
Historical and present range of gray wolf subspecies in North America
Synonyms[2]
knightii (Anderson, 1945)

History

In the early 19th century, John Richardson first cataloged the Manitoba wolf and gave it its taxonomic name.^[4] The species itself was highly prized for its fur^[5] and was hunted to extinction in the wild in the early 20th century.