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Canis latrans Say 1823

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Canis latrans Say 1823

Canis latrans Say 1823, in: James, Account Exped. Pittsburgh to Rocky Mtns, Vol. 1: 168.

Type Locality: "Engineer cantonment" reported at "latitude 41°25'N, and longitude...95°47'30'W" (p. XVIII, vol. 2). Reported in Honacki et al. (1982) as " U.S.A., Nebraska, Washington Co., Engineer Cantonment, about 12 mi. (19.2 km) S. E. Blair".

Vernacular Names: Coyote.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Canis latrans subsp. latrans Say 1823

Subspecies Canis latrans subsp. cagottis C. E. H. Smith 1839

Subspecies Canis latrans subsp. clepticus Elliot 1903

Subspecies Canis latrans subsp. dickeyi Nelson 1932

Subspecies Canis latrans subsp. frustror Woodhouse 1851

Subspecies Canis latrans subsp. goldmani Merriam 1904

Subspecies Canis latrans subsp. hondurensis Goldman 1936

Subspecies Canis latrans subsp. impavidus J. A. Allen 1903

Subspecies Canis latrans subsp. incolatus Hall 1934

Subspecies Canis latrans subsp. jamesi Townsend 1912

Subspecies Canis latrans subsp. lestes Merriam 1897

Subspecies Canis latrans subsp. mearnsi Merriam 1897

Subspecies Canis latrans subsp. microdon Merriam 1897

Subspecies Canis latrans subsp. ochropus Eschscholtz 1829

Subspecies Canis latrans subsp. peninsulae Merriam 1897

Subspecies Canis latrans subsp. texensis Bailey 1905

Subspecies Canis latrans subsp. thamnos Jackson 1949

Subspecies Canis latrans subsp. umpquensis Jackson 1949

Subspecies Canis latrans subsp. vigilis Merriam 1897

Distribution: Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, USA. Introduced to Florida and Georgia and currently widespread throughout Northern and Central America (Beckoff, 1977, 1999).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Revised by Young (1951) and reviewed by Beckoff (1977). Synonyms allocated according to Beckoff (1977) and Hall (1981).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, pp. 532-628 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 575, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Say
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Canidae
Genus
Canis
Species
latrans
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Canis latrans Say, 1823 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Honacki, J. H., K. E. Kinman and J. W. Koeppl (eds.). 1982. Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference. Allen Press, Inc. and The Association of Systematics Collections, Lawrence, Kansas, 694 pp.
  • Merriam, C. H. 1897. The generic names Ictis, Arctogale, and Arctogalidia. Science, 5: 302.
  • Beckoff, M. 1977. Canis latrans. Mammalian Species, 79: 1 - 9.
  • Beckoff, M. 1999. Coyote | Canis latrans. Pp. 139 - 141, in, The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals (D. E. Wilson and S. Ruff, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., 750 pp.
  • Young, S. P. 1951. The clever coyote. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 411 pp.
  • Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.