 In 1842, he wrote a longer description, still confounding the two names, and producing a sketch of a "wolf" based on Siebold's mounted mountain dog specimen.The Japanese wolf, or Honshū wolf, ("Canis lupus hodophilax" Temminck, 1893) is a subspecies of the gray wolf ("Canis lupus").Skeletal remains of the Japanese wolf have been found in archaeological sites, such as Torihama shell mounds, dating from the Jōmon period (10,000 to 250 B.C).