red wolf

red +‎ wolf from being a wolf variant with a reddish coat

red wolf (plural red wolves)

1. a fertile hybrid pseudo-species of wolf resulting from the crossbreeding of gray wolves and coyotes whose contributions to the red wolf genome is roughly 25% to 75%, respectively; which is found in the United States Southwest region

• Canis rufus (formal name for the common name "red wolf")

• eastern wolf
• gray wolf