Dusicyon C. E. H. Smith 1839

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 579

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11344700

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Dusicyon C. E. H. Smith 1839
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Dusicyon C. E. H. Smith 1839 View in CoL

Dusicyon C. E. H. Smith 1839 View in CoL , Jardine's Natur. Libr., 9: 248.

Type Species: Canis antarcticus Bechstein 1799

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Dusicyon australis ( Kerr 1792)

Discussion: There has been general disagreement as to generic classification of the South American canids, with most of the disagreement centered on the species australis , culpaeus , griseus , gymnocercus , microtis , sechurae , thous , and vetulus . Van Gelder (1978) proposed placing these taxa into Canis and giving only subgeneric recognition. The other extreme arrangement is best represented by Cabrera (1931) who recognized 5 genera for this group. Langguth (1969) first followed Cabrera's classification, but later (1975) decided to group most taxa into Canis , because he felt differences were not sufficient to warrant generic distinctions. The phenetic approaches of Clutton-Brock et al. (1976) and Wayne and O'Brien (1987) confirmed the close similarities of these taxa. Berta's (1987, 1988) phylogenetic hypothesis is followed here. Placed in Dusicyon by McKenna and Bell (1997) who consider it to include only the extinct Falkland Island wolf. Tedford et al. (1995) considered a different arrangement of South American canids and recogned the following monophyletic groups: (1) L. vetulus + Chrysocyon + Cerdocyon + Nyctereutes + Speothos + Atelocynus ; (2) L. culpaeus + Dusicyon ; (3) L. griseus + L. gymnocercus + L. sechurae .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Canidae

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Dusicyon C. E. H. Smith 1839

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Dusicyon

C. E. H. Smith 1839: 248
1839
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