Chrysocyon brachyurus (Illiger, 1815) . Abh. Phys. Klasse K. Pruess. Akad. Wiss., 1804- 1811:121.

TYPE LOCALITY: Listed by Cabrera (1958) as "los esteros del Paraguay " .

DISTRIBUTION: NE Argentina; Paraguay; lowlands of Bolivia; Brazil from Rio Grande do Sul to Minas Gerais, Goiâs and Mato Grosso.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Vulnerable.

SYNONYMS: campestris Wied[-Neuwied], 1826; cancrosa Oken, 1816; isodactylus Ameghino, 1906; jubatus Desmarest, 1820; vulpes Larranaga, 1923 .

COMMENTS: See Dietz (1985, Mammalian Species, 234).