However, the number of bone specimens tentatively identified as the Japanese wolf is limited, and only the three stuffed specimens in Japan and the one stuffed specimen in the Netherlands provide intact specimens for identification and analysis.Ī number of osteological characters of the Japanese wolf have been investigated in order to distinguish it from Japanese native dogs ( Canis lupus familiaris) ( Naora, 1965 Imaizumi, 1970a, 1970b). Based on these findings, the Japanese wolf is thought to have had a wide distribution and to have been native to three of the main islands of Japan (Kyushu, Shikoku and Honshu), but not Hokkaido Island. Skeletal remains of the Japanese wolf have been found in archaeological sites dating from the Jomon Period (10,000 to 250 B.C) ( Miyao et al., 1980 Naora, 1965 Shigehara and Hongo, 2000). von Siebold, 1796–1866) at the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, Netherlands ( Obara, 2002). lupus hodophilax is stored in the Siebold Collection (Ph. In addition, a stuffed taxonomic type specimen of C. lupus hodophilax are stored at three academic institutes in Japan ( Naora, 1965 Imaizumi, 1970a, 1970b Miyamoto and Maki, 1983 Miyamoto, 1991 Tachi et al., 2002): the National Museum of Nature and Science, The University of Tokyo, and Wakayama University.
Stuffed animal specimens believed to be C. The Japanese wolf ( Canis lupus hodophilax Temminck, 1893) has generally been considered to be extinct, with the last specimens recorded at Higashi-Yoshino village in Nara Prefecture in 1905.
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