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Ursus arctos (brown bear)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae

Taxonomy
Ursus arctos was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type species of Ursus.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Ursus arctos Linnaeus p. 47
1815Ursus horribilis Ord
1817Ursus ferox Desmarest
1825Danis ferox Gray p. 60
1854Ursus pruinosus Blyth
1864Myrmarctos eversmanni Gray p. 694
1898Melanarctos cavifrons Heude p. 18
1899Ursus procerus Miller, Jr. p. 55
1902Ursus arctos Hay p. 763
1902Ursus procerus Hay p. 763
1911Ursus arctos Thomas p. 139
1923Mylarctos pruinosus Lönnberg p. 91
1927Ursus arctos Boule and De Villeneuve p. 72 figs. Pl 13, fig 7
1968Ursus arctos Kurten p. 127
1973Ursus arctos Ewer
1980Ursus arctos Kurten and Anderson p. 184
1985Ursus arctos Emslie and Czaplewski p. 2
1998Ursus arctos Hunt, Jr. p. 185
1999Ursus arctos Waits et al. p. 90
2001Ursus arctos Larivière p. 1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
RankNameAuthor
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Ferae()
CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderCaniformiaKretzoi 1943
infraorderCanoidea(Simpson 1931)
superfamilyArctoideaFlower 1869
Ursida
superfamilyUrsoideaFischer de Waldheim 1817
familyUrsidaeGray 1825
subfamilyUrsinaeSwainson 1835
tribeUrsini
genusUrsus
speciesarctos

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Ursus arctos Linnaeus 1758 [brown bear]
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Invalid names: Danis ferox Desmarest 1817 [synonym], Melanarctos cavifrons Heude 1898 [synonym], Myrmarctos eversmanni Gray 1864 [synonym], Ursus horribilis Ord 1815 [synonym], Ursus procerus Miller, Jr. 1899 [synonym], Ursus pruinosus Blyth 1854 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available