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Canis lupus, Wolf

Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758

• Modern species: Pleistocene - Present (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, order Carnivora, family Canidae, genus Canis

• Distribution
• Pleistocene: Tochigi, Shizuoka, Yamaguchi, Ehime
• Investigation in progress: Aomori

• Subtaxa
• C. l. hodophilax, Japanese wolf