Speothos venaticus (Lund, 1842)

Oliveira, Marcela Alvares & Calouro, Armando Muniz, 2020, Medium-sized and large mammals of the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractivist Reserve, Acre, Brazil, Check List 16 (1), pp. 127-136 : 131

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/16.1.127

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5467520

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FC8791-A029-F14E-FCED-8D31A317331E

treatment provided by

Marcus

scientific name

Speothos venaticus (Lund, 1842)
status

 

Speothos venaticus (Lund, 1842) View in CoL , Bush Dog

Record. Recorded by hunter interviews (09°08.045′S, 068°57.037′W).

Identification. The body is narrow and the ears are small and rounded. The tail, snout, and limbs are short. Its fur is thick and reddish brown, nearly uniform in colour in the dorsum and ventral portions, except for the head fur, which is reddish tan ( Beisiegel and Zuercher 2005).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Canidae

Genus

Speothos

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