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Taxonomy
Nyctereutes was named by Temminck (1839). It is extant.
It was reranked as Canis (Nyctereutes) by Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau (1930).
It was assigned to Canis by Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau (1930); to Cerdocyonina by Wang et al. (2008); to Caninae by Burgin et al. (2018); and to Canidae by Bourguignat (1875), Kurten (1968), van Gelder (1978), Carroll (1988), Geraads (1997), Werdelin and Peigne (2010), Geraads (2011) and Koufos (2022).
It was reranked as Canis (Nyctereutes) by Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau (1930).
It was assigned to Canis by Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau (1930); to Cerdocyonina by Wang et al. (2008); to Caninae by Burgin et al. (2018); and to Canidae by Bourguignat (1875), Kurten (1968), van Gelder (1978), Carroll (1988), Geraads (1997), Werdelin and Peigne (2010), Geraads (2011) and Koufos (2022).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1839 | Nyctereutes Temminck |
| 1875 | Nyctereutes Bourguignat |
| 1930 | Canis (Nyctereutes) Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau |
| 1968 | Nyctereutes Kurten p. 117 |
| 1978 | Nyctereutes van Gelder |
| 1988 | Nyctereutes Carroll |
| 1997 | Nyctereutes Geraads p. 148 |
| 2008 | Nyctereutes Wang et al. |
| 2010 | Nyctereutes Werdelin and Peigne p. 615 |
| 2011 | Nyctereutes Geraads |
| 2018 | Nyctereutes Burgin et al. |
| 2022 | Nyctereutes Koufos |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Nyctereutes Temminck 1839 [raccoon dog]
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†Nyctereutes abdeslami Geraads 1997
†Nyctereutes barryi Werdelin and Dehghani 2010
†Nyctereutes donnezani Depérer 1890
†Nyctereutes lockwoodi Geraads et al. 2010
†Nyctereutes megamastoides Pomel 1842
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Invalid names: Canis borbonicus Gervais 1859 [objective synonym], Canis mitzopouli Paraskevaidis 1953 [synonym]
Nyctereutes procyonoides Gray 1834 [raccoon dog]
†Nyctereutes sinensis Schlosser 1903
†Nyctereutes tingi Tedford and Qiu 1991
†Nyctereutes vulpinus Soria and Aguirre 1976
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available