Dusicyon gymnocercus (G. Fischer, 1814)

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 : 246-247

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7205234

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scientific name

Dusicyon gymnocercus (G. Fischer, 1814)
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Dusicyon gymnocercus (G. Fischer, 1814) . Zoognosia, 3: 178.

TYPE LOCALITY: Paraguay, vicinity of Asuncion .

DISTRIBUTION: Argentina, north of Rio Negro; Paraguay; Uruguay; S. Brazil; E. Bolivia.

COMMENT: Subgenus Dusicyon or Pseudalopex ; see Cabrera, 1958:234; Van Gelder, 1978:7. Pseudalopex has been considered a synonym of Dusicyon by Cabrera, 1958;229; and Clutton-Brock et al., 1976, 29(3): 166; a subgenus of Dusicyon by Langguth, 1969, Z. Wiss. Zool., 179: 176; a subgenus of Canis by Langguth, 1975:193; and Van Gelder, 1978:7. Includes culpaeolus (part) and inca (part), mismatched skin and skull; see Langguth, 1967, Neotropica, 13:21-38. AL considers inca a synonym of culpaeus . Type locality restricted by Cabrera, 1958:235.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412001007003001.

Cabrera, A. 1958. Dos felidos argentinos ineditos (Mammalia, Carnivora). Neotropica, 3 (12): 70 - 72.

Clutton-Brock, J., G. B. Corbet, and M. Hills. 1976. A review of the family Canidae, with classification by numerical methods. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 29 (3): 119 - 199.

Langguth, A. 1967. Sobre la identidad de Dusicyon culpaeolus (Thomas) y de Dusicyon inca (Thomas). Neotropica, 13: 21 - 28.

Langguth, A. 1969. Die sudamerikanischen Canidae unter besonderer Bercksichtigung des Mohnenwolfes, Chrysocyon brachyurus Illiger. Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 179: 1 - 188.

Langguth, A. 1975. Ecology and evolution in the South American canids. Pp. 192 - 206, in The wild canids: Their systematics, behavioral ecology, and evolution (M. W. Fox, ed.). Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, NY, 508 pp.

Van Gelder, R. G. 1978. A review of canid classification. American Museum Novitates, 2646: 1 - 10.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Canidae

Genus

Dusicyon