List of bears

Bear Temporal range: Early Miocene - Recent
Brown bear at the Moscow Zoo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Caniformia
Superfamily:	Ursoidea
Family:	Ursidae G. Fischer de Waldheim, 1817
Genera
Ailuropoda Helarctos Melursus Ursus Tremarctos Agriarctos † Amphicticeps † Amphicynodon † Arctodus † Cephalogale † Indarctos † Parictis † Plionarctos † Ursavus † Kolponomos †

Below follows a list of the different species of bears. Bears indented are a subspecies or type of the species listed above it that is non-indented.

Types of bears

• American Black Bear
  • Cinnamon Bear
  • Kermode Bear
• Asiatic Black Bear
  • Baluchistan Bear or Pakistan Black Bear
  • Formosan black bear
• Brown bear
  • Atlas bear
  • Bergman's bear
  • Blue bear
  • Eurasian brown bear
  • European brown bear
  • Gobi bear
  • Grizzly bear
  • Himalayan brown bear
  • Nandi bear
  • Ussuri brown bear
  • Kamchatka brown bear
  • Kodiak bear
  • Marsican brown bear (critically endangered)
  • Mexican grizzly bear
  • East Siberian brown bear
  • Syrian brown bear
• Giant panda
• Sloth bear
  • Sri Lankan sloth bear
• Sun bear
• Polar bear
• Ursid hybrid
  • Grizzly–polar bear hybrid
• Spectacled Bear

Extinct bear species

• Agriotherium
• Tremarctos floridanus Florida spectacled bear
• Ailuropoda microta Dwarf Giant Panda
• Ursus arctos californicus "California Grizzly Bear"

See also

• List of non-fictional bears
• List of fictional bears