Ussuri black bear | |
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Conservation status | |
CITES Appendix I (CITES) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Ursidae |
Genus: | Ursus |
Species: | U. thibetanus |
Subspecies: | U. t. ussuricus |
Trinomial name | |
Ursus thibetanus ussuricus Heude, 1901 | |
Synonyms | |
Selenarctos thibetanus ussuricus |
The Ussuri black bear (Ursus thibetanus ussuricus), also known as the Manchurian black bear, is a large subspecies of the Asian black bear native to the Russian Far East, Northeast China and the Korean Peninsula.
Etymology
The subspecies is named after the Ussuri River.
Ecology
Sympatric predators include the Ussuri brown bear and Siberian tiger.
References
- "Asian Black Bear". gbif.org.
- Wu, Jiaqi; Kohno, Naoki; Mano, Shuhei; Fukumoto, Yukio; Tanabe, Hideyuki; Hasegawa, Masami; Yonezawa, Takahiro (2015-09-25). "Phylogeographic and Demographic Analysis of the Asian Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus) Based on Mitochondrial DNA". PLOS ONE. 10 (9): e0136398. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1036398W. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0136398. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4583410. PMID 26406587.
- ^ Heptner, V. G. & Naumov, N. P. (1998). White-chested, black bear. Pages 713–733 in: Mammals of the Soviet Union Vol. II Part 1a, Sirenia and Carnivora (Sea cows; Wolves and Bears). Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Libraries and National Science Foundation.
- ^ Seryodkin, I.V. (2003). "Denning ecology of brown bears and Asiatic black bears in the Russian Far East" (PDF). Ursus. 14 (2): 153–161. JSTOR 3873015.
- Kadariya, Rabin; Shimozuru, Michito; Maldonado, Jesús E.; Moustafa, Mohamed Abdallah Mohamed; Sashika, Mariko; Tsubota, Toshio (2018-12-05). "High genetic diversity and distinct ancient lineage of Asiatic black bears revealed by non-invasive surveys in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal". PLOS ONE. 13 (12): e0207662. Bibcode:2018PLoSO..1307662K. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0207662. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 6281213. PMID 30517155.
Taxon identifiers | |
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Ursus thibetanus ussuricus |
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