California grizzly bear
Subspecies of mammal
The California grizzly bear (Ursus arctos californicus) is an extinct population or subspecies of the brown bear.[2]
| California grizzly bear | |
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| Specimen at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Ursidae |
| Genus: | Ursus |
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| Subspecies: | †U. a. californicus
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| Trinomial name | |
| †Ursus arctos californicus Merriam 1896 [1]
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The California grizzly bear was much like the Kodiak bear of the southern coast of Alaska.
The grizzly became a symbol of the Bear Flag Republic.[3]
References
change- ↑ Merriam 1896, pp. 76–77
- ↑ Wright, William Henry (1909), The Grizzly Bear: The Narrative of a Hunter-naturalist, Historical, Scientific and Adventurous
- ↑ Storer, T.I.; Tevis, L.P. (1996). California Grizzly. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. pp. 335, 42–187. ISBN 978-0-520-20520-8. Archived from the original on 2020-06-11. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
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