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Polar bear
A young male polar bear (Ursus maritimus) rolling on its back in in Churchill, Manitoba.
List of bears
The following is a list of the eight extant species of bear (members of the family Ursidae) ordered alphabetically by genus and common name. (See also carnivore.)
genus Ailuropoda
- giant panda (A. melanoleuca)
genus Helarctos
- sun bear (H. malayanus)
genus Melursus
- sloth bear (M. ursinus)
genus Tremarctos
- spectacled bear (T. ornatus)
genus Ursus
- American black bear (U. americanus)
- Asiatic black bear (U. thibetanus)
- brown bear (U. arctos)
- grizzly bear (several North American subspecies of U. arctos)
- Kodiak bear (U. arctos middendorffi)
- polar bear (U. maritimus)
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