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Typical Bears
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Typical Bears

Ursinae

Ursinae is a subfamily of Ursidae (bears) named by Swainson (1835) though probably named before Hunt 1998. It was assigned to Ursidae by Bjork (1970), Hunt (1998) and Jin et al. (2007).

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3 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first · about 6 known species

Holarctic Bears

genusUrsus

Sloth Bears

genusMelursus

Sun Bears

genusHelarctos

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 846255.