Dusicyon australis (Kerr 1792)

[Canis] australis Kerr 1792, in: Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom: 144.

Type Locality: "America and Falkland islands." .

Vernacular Names: Falkland Islands Wolf.

Synonyms: Dusicyon antarcticus (Bechstein 1799) .

Distribution: Falkland Isls.

Conservation: IUCN – Extinct.

Discussion: Placed in Dusicyon by Cabrera (1931) and Berta (1987, 1988), and considered as a subgenus separate from other "foxes" (i.e., culpaeus, griseus, gymnocercus, and sechurae) by Langguth (1975) and Van Gelder (1978).