Ursus thibetanus G. Cuvier, 1823 . Rech. Oss. Foss., 4: 325.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Assam, Sylhet .

DISTRIBUTION: Afghanistan; Pakistan; N. India; China; S.E. Primorsky Krai (U.S. S. R.); Korea; Japan; Indochina.

COMMENT: Placed in genus Ursus, subgenus Selenarctos by Gromov and Baranova, 1981:249; and in subgenus Euarctos by Thenius, 1979:293. Stains, 1967, in Anderson and Jones, p. 331; Corbet, 1978:165; and Hendey, 1980:98, considered it a distinct genus, Selenarctos .

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as Selenarctos thibetanus .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412002004001001.