iJapanese Wolf
Conservation status
Extinct (1905)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Canidae Genus: Canis Species: C. lupus Subspecies: C. l. hodophilax
Trinomial name
Canis lupus hodophilax (Temminck, 1839)

The Japanese Wolf (狼 or おおかみ, Ōkami^?) refers to two extinct subspecies of the grey wolf. The subspecies that the name 'Japanese Wolf' usually describes is the Honshū Wolf (Canis lupus hodophilax (日本狼 or にほんおおかみ, Nihon Ōkami^?)), which occupied the islands of Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū in Japan. It is thought to have become extinct due to a combination of rabies, which was first reported in Kyūshū and Shikoku in 1732, and human eradication. The last known specimen died in 1905, in Nara Prefecture. Image File history File links Japanese_wolf. ... The conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Phyla Subregnum Parazoa Porifera Subregnum Eumetazoa Placozoa Orthonectida Rhombozoa Radiata (unranked) Ctenophora Cnidaria Bilateria (unranked) Acoelomorpha Myxozoa Superphylum Deuterostomia Chordata Hemichordata Echinodermata Chaetognatha Xenoturbellida Superphylum Ecdysozoa Kinorhyncha Loricifera Priapulida Nematoda Nematomorpha Onychophora Tardigrada Arthropoda Superphylum Platyzoa Platyhelminthes Gastrotricha Rotifera Acanthocephala Gnathostomulida Micrognathozoa Cycliophora Superphylum Lophotrochozoa Sipuncula Nemertea Phoronida Bryozoa Entoprocta... {{{subdivision_ranks}}} See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ... Orders Multituberculata (extinct) Palaeoryctoides (extinct) Triconodonta (extinct) Subclass Australosphenida Ausktribosphenida Monotremata Subclass Eutheria (excludes extinct ancestors) Afrosoricida Anagaloidea (extinct) Arctostylopida (extinct) Artiodactyla Carnivora Cetacea Chiroptera Cimolesta (extinct) Cingulata Creodonta (extinct) Condylarthra (extinct) Dermoptera Desmostylia (extinct) Dinocerata (extinct) Embrithopoda (extinct) Hyracoidea Insectivora Lagomorpha Leptictida (extinct) Litopterna (extinct) Macroscelidea Mesonychia (extinct) Notoungulata... Families 17, See classification The diverse and interesting order Carnivora IPA: (from Latin carō (stem carn-) flesh, + vorāre to devour) includes over 260 placental mammals. ... Genera Alopex Atelocynus Canis Cerdocyon Chrysocyon Cuon Dusicyon Fennecus Lycalopex Lycaon Nyctereutes Otocyon Pseudalopex Speothos Urocyon Vulpes Canidae is the family of carnivorous and omnivorous mammals commonly known as canines. ... Species Canis lupus Canis lycaon Canis rufus Canis latrans Canis aureus Canis adustus Canis mesomelas Canis simensis Canis dirus(extinct) Canis is a genus that includes several of the modern wolf and jackal species, including the Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) which is thought to be the ancestor of the Domestic... Binomial name Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758 The Wolf or Grey Wolf (Canis lupus) is a mammal of the Canidae family and the ancestor of the domestic dog. ... Trinomial nomenclature is a taxonomic naming system that extends the standard system of binomial nomenclature by adding a third taxon. ... Coenraad Jacob Temminck (March 31, 1778 - January 30, 1858) was a Dutch aristocrat and zoologist. ... 1839 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... In biology and ecology, extinction is the ceasing of existence of a species or group of species. ... In zoology, as in other branches of biology, subspecies is the rank immediately subordinate to a species. ... 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KyÅ«shÅ« region of Japan and the current prefectures on KyÅ«shÅ« island KyÅ«shÅ« ), literally Nine Provinces, is the third largest island of Japan and most southerly and westerly of the four main islands. ... Events February 23 - First performance of Handels Orlando, in London June 9 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Nara Prefecture ) is part of the Kinki region on Honshu Island, Japan. ...

Some interpretations of the Honshū Wolf's extinction stress the change in local perceptions of the animal: rabies-induced aggression and deforestation of the wolf's habitat forced them into conflict with humans, and this led to them being targeted by farmers.^[1]

There are currently eight known pelts and five stuffed specimens of the Japanese Wolf in existence. One stuffed specimen is in the Netherlands, three are in Japan, and the animal caught in 1905 is kept in the British Museum. Owing to its small size (the Honshū Wolf is the smallest known variety of wolf, probably due to allopatric speciation / island dwarfing) the Honshū Wolf's classification as a subspecies of the grey wolf is disputed. A dogs fur usually consists of longer, stiffer, guard hairs—which can be straight, wiry, or wavy, and of various lengths, hiding a soft, short-haired undercoat. ... The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2000 to become the Great Court, with a tessellated glass roof by Buro Happold and Foster and Partners surrounding the original Reading Room. ... Allopatric speciation, also known as geographic speciation, occurs when populations physically isolated by an extrinsic barrier evolve intrinsic (genetic) reproductive isolation such that if the barrier between the populations breaks down, individuals of the two populations can no longer interbreed. ... Island dwarfing is a biological phenomenon by which the size of animals isolated on an island shrinks dramatically over generations. ...

The other endemic wolf of Japan was the Ezo Wolf (Canis lupus hattai (蝦夷狼, Ezo-ōkami^?)), also known as the Hokkaido Wolf, which occupied the island of Hokkaidō in Japan. The Ezo Wolf was larger than the Honshū Wolf, more closely approaching the size of a regular grey wolf. The Ezo Wolf reportedly became extinct in 1889 as a result of deliberate strychnine poisoning by farmers. In biology and ecology endemic means exclusively native to a place or biota, in contrast to cosmopolitan or introduced. ... Species Canis lupus Canis lycaon Canis rufus Canis latrans Canis aureus Canis adustus Canis mesomelas Canis simensis Canis dirus(extinct) Canis is a genus that includes several of the modern wolf and jackal species, including the Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) which is thought to be the ancestor of the Domestic... Hokkaidō   (北海道, literal meaning: North Sea Route, Ainu: Mosir), formerly known as Ezo and Yesso, is the second largest island and largest prefecture of Japan. ... 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Strychnine (pronounced (British) or (U.S.)) is a very toxic (LD50 = 1 mg/kg), colourless crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide, particularly for killing small vertebrates such as rodents. ... Farmer spreading grasshopper bait in his alfalfa field. ...

The Japanese Wolf was afforded a benign, rather than malignant, place in Japanese mythology and religion: the clan leader Fujiwara no Hidehira was said to have been raised by wolves, and the wolf is often symbolically linked with mountain kami in Shinto (the most famous example being the wolf kami of Mitsumine Shrine in the town of Chichibu in Saitama Prefecture). Fujiwara no Hidehira (藤原 秀衡; ? - 1187) was the third ruler of Northern Fujiwara in Mutsu Province, Japan, the grandson of Fujiwara no Kiyohira. ... Megami redirects here. ... Shinto() is the native religion of Japan and was once its state religion. ... Float in Night Festival, Chichibu Chichibu (秩父市 Chichibu-shi) is a city located in Saitama, Japan. ... Saitama Prefecture (埼玉県; Saitama-ken) is located on Honshu island, Japan. ...

Sightings of the Japanese Wolf have been claimed from the time of its extinction to the present day, but none of these have been verified (see cryptozoology).^[2] Pen and wash drawing by malacologist Pierre Denys de Montfort, 1801, from the descriptions of French sailors reportedly attacked by a Kraken off the coast of Angola. ...

See also

Shikoku (dog) The Shikoku Inu ( Kochi-ken, Japanese Wolfdog ) is a primitive Japanese breed of dog from Shikoku island that is similar to a Shiba Inu. ...

References

1. ^ Knight, John (2004). On the Extinction of the Japanese Wolf. Retrieved on 2006-06-15.
2. ^ Hall, Jamie (2005). The Cryptid Zoo: Japanese Dwarf Wolf (or Shamanu). Retrieved on 2006-06-15.