Canis latrans Say, 1823

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

Canis latrans Say, 1823 . In Long, Account of an Exped. from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mtns., 1:168.

REVIEWED BY: M. Bekoff (MB).

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., Nebraska, Washington Co., Engineer Cantonment, about 12 mi. (19.2 km) S. E. Blair .

DISTRIBUTION: Originally may have occurred W. of the Mississippi R., N. to about 55° N. lat., and south to Mexico City. Has extended its range north to N. Alaska ( U.S.A.), Northwest Territories and Hudson Bay ( Canada), south to Costa Rica, and east to the Atlantic coast.

COMMENT: Reviewed by Bekoff, 1977, Mamm. Species, 79:1-9. See Young, 1951, The clever coyote, Wildl. Mng. Inst., Washington, D.C., p. 29, for a discussion of distribution.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412001003004001.