Lycaon pictus (Temminck 1820)

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 : 581

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scientific name	Lycaon pictus (Temminck 1820)
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[Hyaena] picta Temminck 1820 , Ann. Gen. Sci. Phys., 3: 54.

Type Locality: "á la côte de Mosambique" [ Mozambique].

Vernacular Names: African wild dog.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Lycaon pictus subsp. pictus Temminck 1820

Subspecies Lycaon pictus subsp. lupinus Thomas 1902

Subspecies Lycaon pictus subsp. manguensis Matschie 1915

Subspecies Lycaon pictus subsp. sharicus Thomas and Wroughton 1907

Subspecies Lycaon pictus subsp. somalicus Thomas 1904

Distribution: Angola, Botswana, Cameroun, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire (?), Ethiopia, Gambia (?), Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Moçambique, Namibia, Sénégal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Recently extinct: Algeria (?), Benin, Burkina Faso (?), Burundi, Dem. Rep. Congo (?), Eritrea, Gabon, Ghana, Niger, Mauritania, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Togo (Fanshawe et al, 1997).

Conservation: U. S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: Allocated according to G. M. Allen (1939) and Ellerman et al. (1953). Girman et al. (1993) presented molecular evidence concerning subspecies.