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Taxonomy
Lycaon was named by Brookes (1827). It is extant.
It was assigned to Canina by Gray (1825); to Canina by Wang et al. (2008); and to Canidae by Bourguignat (1875), Kurten (1968), van Gelder (1978), Carroll (1988), Hartstone-Rose et al. (2010), Geraads (2011), Medin et al. (2017) and Koufos (2022).
It was assigned to Canina by Gray (1825); to Canina by Wang et al. (2008); and to Canidae by Bourguignat (1875), Kurten (1968), van Gelder (1978), Carroll (1988), Hartstone-Rose et al. (2010), Geraads (2011), Medin et al. (2017) and Koufos (2022).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1825 | Lycaon Gray p. 339 |
| 1827 | Lycaon Brookes p. 151 |
| 1875 | Lycaon Bourguignat |
| 1968 | Lycaon Kurten p. 112 |
| 1978 | Lycaon van Gelder |
| 1988 | Lycaon Carroll |
| 2008 | Lycaon Wang et al. |
| 2010 | Lycaon Hartstone-Rose et al. |
| 2011 | Lycaon Geraads |
| 2017 | Lycaon Medin et al. p. 29 |
| 2022 | Lycaon Koufos |
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G. Lycaon Brookes 1827
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†Lycaon magnus Ewer and Singer 1956
Lycaon pictus Temminck 1820 [African wild dog]
†Lycaon sekowei Hartstone-Rose et al. 2010
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available