Dusicyon H[amilton], Smith, 1839

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 H[amilton], Smith, 1839
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Dusicyon H[amilton], Smith, 1839 View in CoL . Jardine's Natur. Libr., 9:248.

TYPE SPECIES: Cam's antarcticus Bechstein, 1799 (= C. australis Kerr, 1792 View in CoL ), by subsequent designation by Cabrera (1931).

COMMENTS: There has been general disagreement as to generic classification of the South American canids, with most of the disagreement centered on the species australis , culpaeus , griseus , gymnocercus , microtis , sechurae , thous , and vetulus . Van Gelder (1978) proposed placing these taxa into Canis and giving only subgeneric recognition. The other extreme is best represented by Cabrera (1931) who recognized 5 genera for this group. Langguth (1969) first followed Cabrera's classification, but later (1975) decided to group most taxa into Canis , because he felt differences were not sufficient to warrant generic distinctions. The phenetic approaches of Clutton-Brock et al. (1976) and Wayne and O'Brien (1987) confirmed the close similarities of these taxa. Berta's (1987, 1988) phylogenetic hypothesis is followed here.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Canidae

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Dusicyon H[amilton], Smith, 1839

W. Christopher Wozencraft 1993
1993
Loc

Dusicyon H[amilton], Smith, 1839

C. E. H. Smith 1839: 248
1839
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