The Mogollon Mountain Wolf
Also known as the Southwestern wolf or Mogollon Mountain wolf, the Mongollon wolf was classified as gray wolf subspecies
Canis lupus mongolonensis by biologist Edward A. Goldman in 1937. It was named after
the Mogollon Indians of Arizona and New Mexico.
HABITAT
It inhabited Mogollon Plateau region of central of central Arizona, east through the Mogollon Mountains in southeast New Mexico to the
Sacramento Mountains in central New Mexico.
CHARACTERISTICS
The Mogollon wolf was a small to medium size, slightly smaller than the Texas gray wolf on average, but
larger that the Mexican gray.
STATUS
The Mogollon Mountain wolf was driven to extinction by 1935.
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