Ursus americanus carlottae

Haida Gwaii black bear
	A black bear in Clayoquot Sound.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Ursidae
Genus:	Ursus
Species:	U. americanus
Subspecies:	U. a. carlottae
Trinomial name
	Ursus americanus carlottae; Osgood, 1901

The Haida Gwaii black bear (Ursus americanus carlottae), also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands black bear, is a morphologically distinct subspecies of the American black bear.^[1]

^ S. A. Byun; B. F. Koop; T. E. Reimchen (October 1997). "North American Black Bear mtDNA Phylogeography: Implications for Morphology and the Haida Gwaii Glacial Refugium Controversy". Evolution. 51 (5). Society for the Study of Evolution: 1647–1653. doi:10.2307/2411216. JSTOR 2411216. PMID 28568643.

[1] S. A. Byun; B. F. Koop; T. E. Reimchen (October 1997). "North American Black Bear mtDNA Phylogeography: Implications for Morphology and the Haida Gwaii Glacial Refugium Controversy". Evolution. 51 (5). Society for the Study of Evolution: 1647–1653. doi:10.2307/2411216. JSTOR 2411216. PMID 28568643.

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