Austro-Hungarian wolf

Austro-Hungarian wolf Temporal range: 0.7–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Middle Pleistocene – Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Canidae
Genus:	Canis
Species:	C. lupus
Subspecies:	C. l. minor
Trinomial name
Canis lupus minor M. Mojsisovics, 1887
Estimated historical range
Synonyms
Canis aureus hungaricus Gyula Éhik, 1938

The Austro-Hungarian wolf (Canis lupus minor), also called the reedwolf, is a possibly extinct subspecies of the gray wolf that is thought to have inhabited the Balkan peninsula. Its subspecies status and even genus are uncertain, as there are few records and no uncontroversial remains. It has even been interpreted as a golden jackal, although a status as a diminutive form of the gray wolf is more commonly accepted. It is generally assumed to have gone extinct before 1900.^[1][2]

References

1. George M. Eberhart (1 January 2002). Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology. ABC-CLIO. p. 240. ISBN 978-1-57607-283-7.
2. Szunyoghy, Janos (1957). "Systematische Revision des ungarlaendischen Schakals, gleichzeitig eine Bemerkung ueber das Rohrwolf-Problem". Annales Historico-Naturales. Musei Nationalis Hungarici. 8: 425–433.

Further reading

Murray Wrobel (18 November 2006). Elsevier's Dictionary of Mammals. Elsevier. p. 862. ISBN 978-0-08-048882-0.