Canis Linnaeus, 1758

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 280

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Canis Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:38 View Cited Treatment .

TYPE SPECIES: Canis familiaris Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL (= Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL ) by Linnean tautonomy ( Melville and Smith, 1987).

COMMENTS: Van Gelder (1978) included Alopex , Atelocynus , Cerdocyon , Pseudalopex , Lycalopex, Dusicyon , and Vulpes as subgenera. However, this arrangement is not currently employed by most mammalogists ( Berta, 1987, 1988; Corbet, 1978c; Corbet and Hill, 1980; Gromov and Baranova, 1981; Hall, 1981; Wozencraft, 1989b).