California grizzly bear

California grizzly bear
Specimen at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Conservation status
Extinct  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Ursidae
Genus:	Ursus
Species:	U. arctos
Subspecies:	†U. a. californicus
Trinomial name
†Ursus arctos californicus Merriam 1896 [1]
Synonyms
colusus Merriam, 1914 henshawi Merriam, 1914 klamathensis Merriam, 1914 magister Merriam, 1914 mendocinensis Merriam, 1916 tularensis Merriam, 1914

The California grizzly bear (Ursus arctos californicus) is an extinct population or subspecies of the brown bear.^[2]

The California grizzly bear was much like the Kodiak bear of the southern coast of Alaska.

The grizzly became a symbol of the Bear Flag Republic.^[3]

1. ↑ Merriam 1896, pp. 76–77 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFMerriam1896 (help)
2. ↑ Wright, William Henry (1909), The Grizzly Bear: The Narrative of a Hunter-naturalist, Historical, Scientific and Adventurous
3. ↑ Storer, T.I.; Tevis, L.P. (1996). California Grizzly. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. pp. 335, 42–187. ISBN 978-0-520-20520-8. Archived from the original on 2020-06-11. Retrieved 2021-01-27.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)