What is the genus of a black bear?

Ursus americanus. Kingdom: Animal. Phylum: Chordata. Class: Mammalia. Subclass: Theria. Infraclass: Eutheria. Order: Carnivora. Suborder: Fissipedia. Family: Ursidae. Subfamily: Ursinae (all living bears except giant panda and the spectacled bear). Genus: Ursus. Subgenus: Euarctos. read more

Ursus is a genus in the family Ursidae that includes the widely distributed brown bears, the polar bear, black bears and Ursus thibetanus, the Asiatic black bear. The name is derived from the Latin ursus, meaning bear. read more

Taxonomists currently separate black bears into the following 16 subspecies based on minor differences in appearance and DNA. Some of them have common names like Kermode bear, cinnamon bear, and glacier bear, but they are all black bears. read more

The black bear, like all bears, is a predator, and an omnivore. The black bear helps the environment by killing off the elderly, and weaklings of over populated prey. The black bear is not endangered and is widely distributed throughout most of North America. read more