WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774

Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774
AphiaID: 137085

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Carnivora (Order) > Caniformia (Suborder) > Ursidae (Family) > Ursus (Genus)

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Species

Parent

Ursus Linnaeus, 1758

Sources

basis of record: Wilson D.E. & Reeder D.A.M. (1993). Mammals species of the world. A taxonomic and geographic reference. Second edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1206 pp. [details]

additional source: van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
Dutch	ijsbeer	[details]
English	Polar bear	[details]

Environment

marine

Distribution

European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Spitsbergen [details]

Links

To GenBank
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To ITIS

Note

Distribution: circumpolar in Northern Hemisphere [details]

Images

Ursus maritimus - polar bear
added on 2006-06-26 - author: Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) (

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Ursus maritimus
added on 2009-02-17 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
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Ursus maritimus
added on 2009-08-04 - author: Jost, Klaus
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Ursus maritimus
added on 2010-06-14 - author: Collection VLIZ
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Edit
history

Date	action	by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z	created	van der Land, Jacob
2010-05-20 10:05:06Z	changed	Churchill, Morgan
2010-05-20 10:09:49Z	checked	Berta, Annalisa

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Citation: Berta, A.; Churchill, M. (2010). Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137085 on 2010-09-02

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