Lycaon Brookes 1827

Lycaon Brookes 1827, in: Griffith et al., Animal Kingdom, Vol. 5: 151.

Type Species: Lycaon tricolor Brookes 1827

Synonyms: Cynhyaena F. G. Cuvier 1829; Hyaenoides Gervais 1855; Hyenoides Boitard 1842; Kynos Rüppell 1842 .

Species and subspecies: 1 species with 5 subspecies:

Species Lycaon pictus (Temminck 1820)

Subspecies Lycaon pictus subsp. pictus Temminck 1820

Subspecies Lycaon pictus subsp. lupinus Thomas 1902

Subspecies Lycaon pictus subsp. manguensis Matschie 1915

Subspecies Lycaon pictus subsp. sharicus Thomas and Wroughton 1907

Subspecies Lycaon pictus subsp. somalicus Thomas 1904

Discussion: Placed in Simocyoninae Dawkins, 1868, by Simpson (1945) and Stains (1975). Reviewed by Girman et al. (2001).