Cascade mountain wolf
| Cascade Mountains wolf | |
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| Illustration based on a description by Edward Alphonso Goldman | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Genus: | Canis |
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| Subspecies: | C. l. fuscus
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| Trinomial name | |
| Canis lupus fuscus Richardson, 1839
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| Former range of the Cascade Mountain wolf | |
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The Cascade mountain wolf (Canis lupus fuscus) is a subspecies of the gray wolf that is found in coastal British Columbia. It historically inhabited Oregon, Washington, and California, but has been extirpated in those areas. It has a cinnamon-coloured coat and is a large wolf, measuring 165 cm (65 in) in length.
Currently, the Cascade mountain wolf is found around the British Columbia Coast. Its ancestors migrated from the Great Plains into the Cascade Range once the Cordilleran ice sheet retreated there.