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Dusicyon australis

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Description

Dusicyon australis (Kerr, 1792). In Linnaeus, Anim. Kingdom, p. 144.

TYPE LOCALITY: "America and Falkland islands."

DISTRIBUTION: Falkland Islands.

STATUS: IUCN - Extinct.

SYNONYMS: antarcticus Bechstein, 1799; darwini Thomas, 1914.

COMMENTS: Placed in Dusicyon by Cabrera (1931) and Berta (1987, 1988), and considered as a subgenus separate from other "foxes" (i.e., culpaeus, griseus, gymnocercus, and sechurae) by Langguth (1975) and Van Gelder (1978).

Notes

Published as part of W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 283, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191

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Related works

Is part of
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
Kerr
Species
australis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dusicyon australis (Kerr, 1792) sec. Wozencraft, 1993

References

  • Cabrera, A. 1931. On some South American canine genera. Journal of Mammalogy, 12: 54 - 67.
  • 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.
  • Langguth, A. 1975. Ecology and evolution in the South American canids. Pp. 192 - 206, in The wild canids: Their systematics, behavioral ecology, and evolution (M. W. Fox, ed.). Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, NY, 508 pp.
  • Van Gelder, R. G. 1978. A review of canid classification. American Museum Novitates, 2646: 1 - 10.