#BearsOfinstagram #PolarBear #WhiteBear, #NorthernBear, #SeaBear #ArcticBear #Bears #UrsusMaritimus #Baffinisland Binomial name #UrsusMaritimusSeria Phipps, 1774 regram @scott.portelli A magic moment with a large male polar bear against this amazing backdrop off Baffin Island in the remote north. A special encounter as I explore the great white north. Hopefully more to come over the next month as I venture further into this spectacular wilderness . Synonyms #UrsusEogroenlandicus #UrsusGroenlandicus #UrsusJenaensis #UrsusLabradorensis #UrsusMarinus #UrsusPolaris #UrsusSpitzbergensis UrsusUngavensis ThalarctosMaritimus . #PolarBearsSeria #UrsusMaritimusMaritimus #UrsusMaritimusMarinus #UrsusMaritimusTyrannus . Their main population centers are: •Wrangel Island and western Alaska •Northern Alaska •Canadian Arctic archipelago •Greenland •Svalbard-Franz Josef Land •North-Central Siberia 1.Chukchi Sea population on Wrangel Island and western Alaska 2.Northern and northwestern Alaska and northwestern Canada (the Beaufort Sea population) 3.Canadian Arctic archipelago 4.Greenland 5.Spitzbergen-Franz Josef Land 6.Central Siberia Ursus maritimus maritimus by Constantine J. Phipps in 1774, and Ursus maritimus marinus by Peter Simon Pallas in 1776. This distinction has since been invalidated. One fossil subspecies has been identified. Ursus maritimus tyrannus—descended from Ursus arctos—became extinct during the Pleistocene. U.m. tyrannus was significantly larger than the living subspecies. The Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi) . #ArcticanAnimalsSeria #ArcticanBearsSeria #WhiteBearSeria #NorthernBearsSeria, #SeaBearsSeria #ArcticBearsSeria #BearsSeria #09Mary2018seria #09MaySeria Wednesday (Baffin Island)