Dusicyon C. E. H. Smith 1839
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Description
Dusicyon H[amilton], Smith, 1839. Jardine's Natur. Libr., 9:248.
TYPE SPECIES: Cam's antarcticus Bechstein, 1799 (= C. australis Kerr, 1792), by subsequent designation by Cabrera (1931).
COMMENTS: There has been general disagreement as to generic classification of the South American canids, with most of the disagreement centered on the species australis, culpaeus, griseus, gymnocercus, microtis, sechurae, thous, and vetulus. Van Gelder (1978) proposed placing these taxa into Canis and giving only subgeneric recognition. The other extreme is best represented by Cabrera (1931) who recognized 5 genera for this group. Langguth (1969) first followed Cabrera's classification, but later (1975) decided to group most taxa into Canis, because he felt differences were not sufficient to warrant generic distinctions. The phenetic approaches of Clutton-Brock et al. (1976) and Wayne and O'Brien (1987) confirmed the close similarities of these taxa. Berta's (1987, 1988) phylogenetic hypothesis is followed here.
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BD1F4E51C329747CFFD6FC3FFFE0142F (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Canidae
- Genus
- Dusicyon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- C. E. H. Smith
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dusicyon H., 1839 sec. Wozencraft, 1993
References
- Kerr, R. 1792. The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; class I: Mammalia. London, J. Murray & R. Faulder, 664 pp.
- Cabrera, A. 1931. On some South American canine genera. Journal of Mammalogy, 12: 54 - 67.
- Van Gelder, R. G. 1978. A review of canid classification. American Museum Novitates, 2646: 1 - 10.
- Langguth, A. 1969. Die sudamerikanischen Canidae unter besonderer Bercksichtigung des Mohnenwolfes, Chrysocyon brachyurus Illiger. Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 179: 1 - 188.
- Clutton-Brock, J., G. B. Corbet, and M. Hills. 1976. A review of the family Canidae, with classification by numerical methods. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 29 (3): 119 - 199.
- Wayne, R. K., and S. J. O'Brien. 1987. Allozyme divergence within the Canidae. Systematic Zoology, 36: 339 - 355.
- Berta, A. 1987. Origin, diversification, and zoogeography of the South American Canidae. Pp. 455 - 471, in Studies in Neotropical Mammalogy: Essays in honor of Philip Hershkovitz (B. D. Patterson and R. M. Timm, eds.). Fieldiana: Zoology, n. s., 39 (1382): 1 - 506.
- Berta, A. 1988. Quaternary evolution and biogeography of the large South American Canidae (Mammalia: Carnivora). University of California Publications, Geological Sciences, 132: 1 - 149.