Hokkaido wolf
Extinct subspecies of the gray wolf / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Hokkaido wolf (Canis lupus hattai), also known as the Ezo wolf (Japanese: エゾオオカミ(蝦夷狼)ー, Hepburn: Ezo Ōkami) and in Russia as the Sakhalin wolf,[3] is an extinct subspecies of gray wolf that once inhabited coastal northeast Asia. Its nearest relatives were the wolves of North America rather than Asia. It was exterminated in Hokkaido during the Meiji Restoration period, when American-style agricultural reforms incorporated the use of strychnine-laced baits to kill livestock predators.[4] Some taxonomists believe that it survived up until 1945 on the island of Sakhalin. It was one of two subspecies that were once found in the Japanese archipelago, the other being the Japanese wolf (C. l. hodophilax).
Canis lupus hattai | |
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Taxidermied Ezo wolf at Hokkaido University Museum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Canidae |
Genus: | Canis |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | †C. l. hattai |
Trinomial name | |
†Canis lupus hattai | |
Range included Hokkaido and Sakhalin islands, the Kamchatka peninsula and Iturup and Kunashir islands just to the east of Hokkaido in the Kuril archipelago. | |
Synonyms | |
C. l. rex (Pocock, 1935)[2] |