Editing Subspecies of Canis lupus (section)

====Southern Chinese wolf====
In 2017, a comprehensive study found that the gray wolf was present across all of mainland China, both in the past and today. It exists in southern China, which refutes claims made by some researchers in the Western world that the wolf had never existed in southern China.<ref name=wang2017/><ref name=larson2017/> This wolf has not been taxonomically classified.<ref name=smith2008/><ref name=wang2003/>

In 2019, a genomic study on the wolves of China included museum specimens of wolves from southern China that were collected between 1963 and 1988. The wolves in the study formed three clades: northern Asian wolves that included those from northern China and eastern Russia, [[Himalayan wolf|Himalayan wolves]] from the Tibetan Plateau, and a unique population from southern China. One specimen from [[Zhejiang]] Province in eastern China shared gene flow with the wolves from southern China; however, its genome was 12–14 percent admixed with a canid that may be the dhole or an unknown canid that predates the genetic divergence of the [[dhole]]. The wolf population from southern China is believed to still exist in that region.<ref name=Wang2019/>