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Ursus americanus Pallas, 1780

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Spicil. Zool. vol.14 p.5

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Mammalia
order
Carnivora
family
Ursidae
genus
Ursus
species
Ursus americanus

Name

Synonyms
Euarctos americanus (Pallas, 1780)
Euarctos vitabilis Gidley, 1913
Ursus amplidens Leidy, 1853
Ursus optimus Schultz, 1938
Homonyms
Ursus americanus Pallas, 1780
Common names
:Tecuanōtl in Nauru
American Black Bear in English
American Black Bear in English
American Black Bear in English
American Black Bear in English
American Black Bear in English
American Black Bear in English
American Black Bear in English
American Black Bear in English
American black bear in English
Amerika kara ayısı in Turkish
Amerika nigra urso in Esperanto
Amerikaanse Swartbeer in Afrikaans
Amerikaanse Zwarte Beer in Dutch
Amerikan kara ayısı in Turkish
Amerikan mustakarhu in Finnish
Amerikanesche Schwaarze Bier in Luxembourgish
Amerikanischer Schwarzbär in German
Amerikansk sortbjørn in Danish
Amerikansk svartbjørn in Norwegian
Amerikas melnais lācis in Latvian
Ariu i zi amerikan in Albanian
Arzh du Amerika in Breton
Baribal in German
Baribal in German
Baribal in German
Baribal in English
Baribali in Finnish
Beruang hitam amerika in Indonesian
Black Bear in English
Hartz beltz in Basque
Iggabri in Inupiaq
Juodasis lokys in Lithuanian
Makadewi-makwa in Ojibwa
Makwa in Ojibwa
Medvěd baribal in Czech
Medvěd černý in Czech
Mosq in language.
Mustakarhu in Finnish
Niedźwiedź czarny in Polish
Nita in language.
Náhkohe in language.
Ors negre d'America in Occitan (post 1500)
Orso nero in Italian
Oso Negro Americano in English
Oso negro in Spanish
Oso negro in Spanish
Oso negro in Spanish
Oso negro americano in language.
Oso negro americano in Spanish

Bibliographic References

  1. Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79.
  2. Garshelis, D. L. / Don E. Wilson and Russell A. Mittermeier, eds., 2009: Family Ursidae (Bears). Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 1: Carnivores. 448-492.
  3. Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
  4. Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142.
  5. Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole, 2000: null. Common Names of Mammals of the World. xiv + 204.
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