Canidae, Fischer, 1817

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 244-289 : 244

Family Canidae

REVIEWED BY: A. Langguth (AL); J. Ramirez-Pulido (JRP)( Mexico); O. L. Rossolimo (OLR)( U.S. S.R.); H. J. Stains (HJS); R. G. Van Gelder (RGVG).

COMMENT: Several alternative classifications have been published in recent years; see Langguth, 1969, Z. Wiss. Zool., 179:1-188; Langguth, 1975, in Fox, The Wild Canids, pp. 192-206; Clutton-Brock et al., 1976, 29(3): 177- 199; Van Gelder, 1978:1- 10. Three groups of closely related Recent genera or subgenera may be distinguished on the basis of anatomical as well as chromosomal evidence: 1) Cams, Lycaon , Cuon; 2) Vulpes, Fennecus, Alopex, Otocyon and Urocyon; 3) all other recent South American taxa (AL).

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412001000000000.