Ursus arctos

Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae (Bear Family)
Species: Ursus arctos (ERR-sus ARK-tos)
Common English Names: Grizzly, Brown Bear
Common Spanish Names: Oso Plateado
Remarks: A number of species of "grizzly bear" had been named from North America. Eventually they were collected into a single species, Ursus horribilis and later lumped with the Brown Bear of Eurasia as Ursus arctos. As currently understood, the species includes the Big Brown Bears and the Kodiak Bear of Alaska.

Photograph by LuRay Parker, courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

BISON. Extensive information on the Grizzly in New Mexico, references (N.M. Game and Fish).

Last Update: 16 May 2006