Assertion: wolf's subspecie | /r/HasProperty | canis dirus guildayi
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text: In 1984 a study by Björn Kurten recognized a geographic variation within the dire wolf populations and proposed two subspecies: Canis dirus guildayi (named by Kurten in honor of the paleontologist John E. Guilday) for specimens from California and Mexico that exhibited shorter limbs and longer teeth, and Canis dirus dirus for specimens east of the North American Continental Divide that exhibited longer limbs and shorter teeth.