Mogollon Mountain Wolf

Mogollon Mountain Wolf
Mogollon Mountain Wolf
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Genus: Canis
Species: C. lupus
Subspecies: C. l. mogollonensis
Trinomial name
Canis lupus mogollonensis
Goldman, 1937[1][2][3]

The Mogollon Mountain Wolf (Canis lupus mogollonensis) was a subspecies of the gray wolf, Canis lupus, and primarily roamed in Arizona and New Mexico. It became extinct in 1942 and was later conglomerated under the taxonomic banner of the Mexican wolf.

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Physiology

Description

The subspecies was measured at 135-150 cm in length, and weighed 27-36 kg.[4] It was similar to the Texas Wolf that roamed near it, but the Mogollon Mountain Wolf was smaller than its brethren subspecies and had "distinctive cranial details." Lighter colored as well, its fur was a mixture of black and tawny coloring, with cinnamon color mixed in along the edges.[1]

History

Because of its overlapping range with the Mexican wolf, along with the Texas wolf, it was proposed by biologists Bogan and Mehlhop for the Mogollon Mountain Wolf and the Texas wolf to be conglomerated under the same taxonomic name and subspecies as the Mexican wolf. This was because the Mogollon Mountain Wolf was seen as merely a possible middle subspecies between the Mexican Wolf and the Southern Rocky Mountains Wolf, thus making it unnecessary to distinguish taxonomically. This was accepted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service in 1982 and a "zone of subspecies intergradation" was recognized soon thereafter, extending from the southern Rocky Mountains to the northern tip of the Mexican wolf's range.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ a b "The Wolves of North America", E. A. Goldman, Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Feb., 1937), pp. 37-45
  2. ^ "Canis lupus mogollonensis Goldman, 1937" - ITIS Report
  3. ^ "Canis lupus mogollonensis" - NCBI
  4. ^ The Encyclopedia of Vanished Species by David Day, Universe Books ltd. 1981. ISBN 0947889302
  5. ^ "Southwestern Desert Resources" - University of Arizona Press
  6. ^ "SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF RESTORATION POTENTIAL AND POPULATION VIABILITY OF THE WOLF (Canis lupus) IN THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES AND NORTHERN MEXICO" - Klamath Center for Conservation Research

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