| Bernard's Wolf | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Genus: | Canis |
| Species: | C. lupus |
| Subspecies: | C. l. bernardi |
| Trinomial name | |
| Canis lupus bernardi Anderson, 1943 |
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Bernard's Wolf (Canis lupus bernardi), also known as the Banks Island Tundra Wolf and the Banks Island Wolf[1], was a subspecies of the gray wolf, Canis lupus, that was limited to the Banks and Victoria islands of the Canadian arctic. An extinct species, it was described as "white with black-tipped hair along the ridge of the back". It was formally discovered, classified, and named after Peter Bernard and Joseph F. Bernard, his nephew.[2]
There were very few specimens of this subspecies that were recovered, somewhere between three[3] and four[2] in total.
A survey was conducted in March 1993 by the Department of Renewable Resources that was to catalog the wolf and caribou populations of the area. While a number of caribou were found and recorded, along with many other indigenous animal species, not a single wolf was found.[4]