Florida black wolf

The Florida black wolf (Canis Floridanus), also known as the Florida wolf, Black wolf, Eastern black wolf, or Florida red wolf, was a subspecies of the gray wolf or red wolf native to the Southeastern United States. It was declared extinct in 1908. To the Native Americans, it was almost a god and revered it, thus to the European Settlers, it was evil. According to Greta Scacchi, it would have survived until 1917 and was probably a hybrid of a coyote. This picture was drawn by John James Audubon, the famous American artist. The black wolf lived in the Eastern states of Maine, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Tennessee, far west as Southeastern Kansas, and the Southern tip of Illinois. Its Latin names were also Canis Lupus Floridanus, Canis Rufus Floridanus, and Canis Niger Niger. As it started that the Florida black wolf, along with the Red wolf and Gregory's wolf, were actually not related to any known species, or the relation cannot be proven. Although they were called Florida black wolves, they PRIMARILY lived in Texas.