Published December 31, 1982 | Version v1
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Canis latrans Say 1823

Description

Canis latrans Say, 1823. In Long, Account of an Exped. from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mtns., 1:168.

REVIEWED BY: M. Bekoff (MB).

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., Nebraska, Washington Co., Engineer Cantonment, about 12 mi. (19.2 km) S. E. Blair.

DISTRIBUTION: Originally may have occurred W. of the Mississippi R., N. to about 55° N. lat., and south to Mexico City. Has extended its range north to N. Alaska (U.S.A.), Northwest Territories and Hudson Bay (Canada), south to Costa Rica, and east to the Atlantic coast.

COMMENT: Reviewed by Bekoff, 1977, Mamm. Species, 79:1-9. See Young, 1951, The clever coyote, Wildl. Mng. Inst., Washington, D.C., p. 29, for a discussion of distribution.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412001003004001.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 244, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980

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Biodiversity

Family
Canidae
Genus
Canis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Carnivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Say
Species
latrans
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Canis latrans Say, 1823 sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Young, S. P. 1951. The clever coyote. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 411 pp.