Ursus arctos sitkensis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Ursidae
- Genus
- Ursus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Ursus arctos sitkensis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
ABC Islands bear
The ABC Islands bear or Sitka brown bear (Ursus arctos sitkensis) is a subspecies or population of brown bear that resides in Southeast Alaska and is found on Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island in Alaska (colloquially known as the ABC Islands), and a part of the Alexander Archipelago. It has a unique genetic structure that relates them not only to brown bears, but also to polar bears. Its habitat exists within the Tongass National Forest, which is part of the perhumid rainforest zone.
...Ursus arctos sitkensis in languages:
- Arabic
- دب جزر الأي بي سي
- Arabic
- دب سيتكا البني
- Bokmål
- Sitkabjørn
- Chinese
- ABC群島棕熊
- English
- ABC Islands Bear
- English
- ABC Islands Brown Bear
- English
- Sitka Brown Bear
- English
- Admiralty Island Brown Bear
- English
- Baranov Island Brown Bear
- English
- Baranof Island Brown Bear
- English
- Chichagof Island Brown Bear
- English
- Kruzof Island Brown Bear
- English
- Dall Island Brown Bear
- English
- Coastal Brown Bear
- English
- Coastal Grizzly Bear
- English
- ABC Islands Grizzly Bear
- Italian
- Orso bruno di Sitka
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