Arabian wolf

The Arabian wolf, Canis lupus arabs Pocock, 1934, is treated as a valid subspecies of the grey wolf, Canis lupus, in taxonomic databases, and a 2014 genetic study of grey wolves at multiple locations in Saudi Arabia found genetic diversity that supports retaining this taxonomic rank.

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The broader classification of Canis lineages in Asia and Africa, including the Arabian wolf, remains under active scientific debate; a 2022 peer-reviewed scientific review found that genetic divergence supports recognising the Arabian wolf at subspecies level, while recommending a broader re-evaluation of the classification of the genus Canis.

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Arabian Peninsula wolves are assigned to C. l. arabs and those of Iraq and northern Arabia to C. l. pallipes, and the genetic evidence has not yet settled the distinction between them; a genetic study of Saudi wolves indicates that the Arabian wolf is closer to the European wolf than to the Indian wolf.

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