Kamchatka brown bear

Kamchatka brown bear

Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) (Kuril Islands)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Genus: Ursus
Species:
Subspecies:
U. a. beringianus
Trinomial name
Ursus arctos beringianus
Middendorff, 1851
Ursus arctos beringianus range map.
Synonyms

kolymensis Ognev, 1924
mandchuricus Heude, 1898
piscator Pucheran, 1855

The Kamchatka brown bear (Ursus arctos beringianus), also known as the Far Eastern brown bear, is a subspecies of brown bear native to the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula.