Dusicyon australis (Kerr, 1792)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 283

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Dusicyon australis (Kerr, 1792) View in CoL . In Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom, p. 144.

TYPE LOCALITY: "America and Falkland islands."

DISTRIBUTION: Falkland Islands.

STATUS: IUCN - Extinct.

SYNONYMS: antarcticus Bechstein, 1799; darwini Thomas, 1914.

COMMENTS: 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).