Mexican Wolf
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| Mexican Gray Wolf | |
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| Wolf at the Rio Grande Zoo showing its back and hind coloring | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Genus: | Canis |
| Species: | C. lupus |
| Subspecies: | C. l. baileyi |
| Trinomial name | |
| Canis lupus baileyi (Nelson & Goldman, 1929) |
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The Mexican Grey Wolf, also known as the lobo, is a wolf and one of the rarest subspecies of the Grey Wolf. Once native to southeastern Arizona, southern New Mexico, western Texas and northern Mexico. It is the smallest of North America's gray wolves.
