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Taxonomy
Canis vetulus was named by Lund (1842). It is extant. Its type locality is Lagoa Santa, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in Brazil.
It was recombined as Lycalopex vetulus by Burmeister (1854), Bourguignat (1875), Cabrera (1931), van Gelder (1978), Wilson and Reeder (2005) and Favarini et al. (2022).
It was recombined as Lycalopex vetulus by Burmeister (1854), Bourguignat (1875), Cabrera (1931), van Gelder (1978), Wilson and Reeder (2005) and Favarini et al. (2022).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1842 | Canis vetulus Lund |
| 1842 | Pseudalopex vetulus Lund |
| 1843 | Canis fulvicaudus Lund |
| 1854 | Lycalopex vetulus Burmeister |
| 1868 | Lycalopex fulvicaudus Gray |
| 1875 | Lycalopex fulvicaudus Bourguignat |
| 1875 | Lycalopex vetulus Bourguignat |
| 1890 | Canis parvidens Mivart |
| 1890 | Canis urostictus Mivart |
| 1899 | Nothocyon parvidens Wortman and Matthew |
| 1899 | Nothocyon urostictus Wortman and Matthew p. 125 |
| 1904 | Canis sladeni Thomas |
| 1905 | Eunothocyon sladeni Allen |
| 1931 | Lycalopex vetulus Cabrera |
| 1978 | Lycalopex vetulus van Gelder |
| 2005 | Lycalopex vetulus Wilson and Reeder |
| 2008 | Pseudalopex vetulus Wang et al. |
| 2022 | Lycalopex vetulus Favarini et al. |
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Canis vetulus Lund 1842 [Hoary fox]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available