Description
English: Honshu wolf on Dejima
Date 1826-1830
Source Funk, H. (2015), "A re-examination of C. J. Temminck's sources for his descriptions of the extinct Japanese wolf", Archives of natural history, Volume 42, Issue 1, pp. 51-65, ISSN 0260-9541
Author Carl Hubert de Villeneuve
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:W%C3%B4kami_-_Carl_Hubert_de_Villeneuve.png
The Japanese wolf (Canis lupus hodophilax) is an extinct subspecies of the gray wolf that was once endemic to the islands of Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū in the Japanese archipelago. It is also known as the Honshu wolf. |
