| Southern Rocky Mountains Wolf | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Genus: | Canis |
| Species: | C. lupus |
| Subspecies: | C. l. youngi |
| Trinomial name | |
| Canis lupus youngi Goldman, 1937[1][2] |
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The Southern Rocky Mountains Wolf (Canis lupus youngi), also known as the Southern Rockies Wolf, the Southern Rocky Mountains Grey Wolf, the Southern Rocky Mountains Common Wolf,[3] and the Great Basin Gray Wolf,[4] was a subspecies of the gray wolf, Canis lupus, that used to roam in the regions in and around Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado.[5] The subspecies was named after Stanley P. Young.[6][7] It became extinct in 1935.[8]
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The Southern Rocky Mountains Wolf was a medium-size wolf that weighed around 90 lbs on average.[9][10] It is considered to have been the "second largest wolf in the United States".[11] The coloring of the subspecies tended toward black, with lighter areas on the edges of its fur and white in various small patches.[1]
Its primary range type included "coniferous forests, woodlands, and adjacent grasslands", which was all included in the states that it used to roam.[12]