Cascade mountain wolf

Cascade Mountains wolf
Illustration based on a description by Edward Alphonso Goldman

Extinct (1940)  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Genus: Canis
Species:
Subspecies:
C. l. fuscus
Trinomial name
Canis lupus fuscus
Richardson 1839
Historical and present range of gray wolf subspecies in North America
Synonyms
  • Canis lupus gigas (Townsend, 1850)

The Cascade mountain wolf (Canis lupus fuscus) is an extinct subspecies of the gray wolf that was once found in the Pacific Northwest (British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington), but became extinct in 1940.