Subfamily
Ursinae (Typical bears)
Ursus americanus californiensis. Photo: (c) cloudya, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Ursinae is a subfamily of Ursidae (bears) named by Swainson (1835) though probably named before Hunt 1998. It was assigned to Ursidae by Bjork (1970), Hunt (1998) and Jin et al. (2007).