Who is credited with the 1758 scientific authority for Canis lupus?

Carl Linnaeus is credited with the 1758 scientific authority for Canis lupus.

The authority citation “Linnaeus, 1758” records the scientist and year associated with the original formal description of the species. Linnaeus published the name in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, the landmark work that helped establish modern binomial nomenclature.

He classified the wolf as Canis lupus: Canis identified the genus, while lupus was the species epithet. In the same period, Linnaeus treated the domestic dog as a separate species, Canis familiaris, although later genetic and taxonomic research has often placed dogs within the wolf’s species complex or treated them as a subspecies.

The other names are connected with zoology but not with the original authority for this species. Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber described or named many mammals later, Peter Simon Pallas worked extensively on Eurasian fauna, and Charles Darwin’s evolutionary work came a century afterward. Taxonomic authorities identify the original naming event, not necessarily the person who discovered every aspect of the animal’s biology.