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Prefectural Natural Monument
Mammals
Japanese Wolf (specimens)
Canis lupus hodophilax
The Japanese wolf was a small wolf once native to Japan, thought to have gone extinct in the early twentieth century. The designated items are preserved specimens, a pelt and skulls, obtained in the Chichibu Mountains of Saitama. Few real specimens exist anywhere, making them precious evidence of an extinct native animal.
- Scientific name
- Canis lupus hodophilax
- Group
- Mammals
- Prefectures
- Saitama
- 日本語
- ニホンオオカミ
- 简体中文
- 日本狼（标本）
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The Japanese Wolf (specimens) is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Saitama.
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