Canidae Fischer 1817

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 573

Canidae Fischer 1817

Canidae Fischer 1817 , Mem. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscow, 5: 372.

Genera: 13 genera with 35 species:

Genus Atelocynus Cabrera 1940 (1 species with 2 subspecies)

Genus Canis Linnaeus 1758 (6 species with 79 subspecies)

Genus Cerdocyon C. E. H. Smith 1839 (1 species with 6 subspecies)

Genus Chrysocyon C. E. H. Smith 1839 (1 species)

Genus Cuon Hodgson 1838 (1 species with 3 subspecies)

Genus Dusicyon C. E. H. Smith 1839 (1 species)

Genus Lycalopex Burmeister 1854 (6 species with 11 subspecies)

Genus Lycaon Brookes 1827 (1 species with 5 subspecies)

Genus Nyctereutes Temminck 1838 (1 species with 5 subspecies)

Genus Otocyon Müller 1835 (1 species with 2 subspecies)

Genus Speothos Lund 1839 (1 species with 3 subspecies)

Genus Urocyon Baird 1857 (2 species with 22 subspecies)

Genus Vulpes Frisch 1775 (12 species with 61 subspecies)

Discussion: Conservation status and distribution reviewed by Ginsberg and Macdonald (1990). Reviewed by Langguth (1975), Stains (1975), Tedford et al. (1995), and Wayne et al. (1997). Revisions by Langguth (1969), Clutton-Brock et al. (1976), Van Gelder (1978), Berta (1985, 1988), Wayne and O'Brien (1987), Wayne (1993), and Wayne et al. (1987 a, b, 1989, 1997) gave little support to the subfamilies recognized by Simpson (1945); therefore, no subfamilies are recognized here. There are considerable questions regarding the validity of the South American genera (Wang et al., 1999; Wayne et al., 1997). Van Gelder's (1978) hybridization criteria for generic classification resulted in the recognition of only a few genera, including some paraphyletic groups.