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Polar beir
Temporal range:Pleistocene-recent[1]
Scientific classificationedit
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Cless: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Faimily: Ursidae
Genus: Ursus
Species: U. maritimus
Binomial name
Ursus maritimus
Subspeshies

Ursus maritimus tyrannus(?)[4]

Polar bear range
Synonyms

Ursus eogroenlandicus
Ursus groenlandicus
Ursus jenaensis
Ursus labradorensis
Ursus marinus
Ursus polaris
Ursus spitzbergensis
Ursus ungavensis
Thalarctos maritimus

Thepolar beir(Ursusmaritimus) is acarnivorousbeir whase native range lies lairgely within theArctic Circle,encompassin theArctic Ocean,its surroondin seas an surroondin laund masses.

References[eedit|eedit soorce]

  1. Ingólfsson, Ólafur; Wiig, Øystein (2009)."Late Pleistocene fossil find in Svalbard: the oldest remains of a polar bear (Ursus maritimusPhipps, 1744) ever discovered ".Polar Research.28(3).doi:10.3402/polar.v28i3.6131.Archived fraethe originalon 9 October 2016.Retrieved13 Januar2019.Unknown parameter|dead-url=ignored (help)Archived2016-10-09 at theWayback Machine
  2. Wiig, Ø.; Amstrup, S.; Atwood, T.; Laidre, K.; Lunn, N.; Obbard, M.; Regehr, E. & Thiemann, G. (2015)."Ursus maritimus".The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.2015:e.T22823A14871490.doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T22823A14871490.en.Archived fraethe originalon 19 Apryle 2019.Retrieved13 December2017.Cite uses deprecated parameter|last-author-amp=(help)
  3. Phipps, John(1774).A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773.London: W. Bowyer and J. Nicols, for J. Nourse. p. 185.
  4. DeMaster, Douglas P.;Stirling, Ian(8 Mey 1981). "Ursus Maritimus".Mammalian Species.145(145): 1–7.doi:10.2307/3503828.JSTOR3503828.OCLC46381503.