East Siberian brown bear
| East Siberian brown bear | |
|---|---|
| Brown bear with slaty-backed gulls at Magadan Nature Reserve, Russia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Ursidae |
| Genus: | Ursus |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | U. a. collaris |
| Trinomial name | |
| Ursus arctos collaris F. G. Cuvier, 1824 | |
| Synonyms | |
|
jeniseensis Ognev, 1924 | |
The East Siberian brown bear (Ursus arctos collaris) is a population or subspecies of brown bear which ranges from eastern Siberia, beginning at the Yenisei river, north to the Arctic Circle, as far as Trans-Baikaliya, the Stanovoy Range, the Lena River, Kolyma and generally throughout Yakutia and the Altai Mountains. The subspecies is also present in northern Mongolia, northern Xinjiang, and eastern Kazakhstan.