Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Eutheria > Order Carnivora > Suborder Caniformia

Ursidae Fischer, 1817

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Ursus Linnaeus, 1758

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: bears sources: Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

German: Bären sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: Αρκτίδες sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: orsidi sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: lokiniai sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: bjørnefamilien sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: bjørnefamilien sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: bjørnefamilien sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: niedźwiedziowate sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: медве́жьи sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: medvedi sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: björnar sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: ayıgiller sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Ведмедеві

Literature

basis of record	Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. In Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. 723--743.
additional source	van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376