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Lycalopex culpaeus

Description

Lycalopex culpaeus (Molina 1782)

[Lycalopex] culpaeus (Molina 1782), Sagg. Stor. Nat. Chile: 293.

Type Locality: " Chili " restricted by Cabrera (1931) to "the Santiago Province.".

Vernacular Names: Culpeo.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Lycalopex culpaeus subsp. culpaeus Molina 1782

Subspecies Lycalopex culpaeus subsp. andinus Thomas 1914

Subspecies Lycalopex culpaeus subsp. lycoides Philippi 1896

Subspecies Lycalopex culpaeus subsp. magellanicus Gray 1837

Subspecies Lycalopex culpaeus subsp. reissii Hilzheimer 1906

Subspecies Lycalopex culpaeus subsp. smithersi Thomas 1914

Distribution: Argentina (Tierra del Fuego), Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II as Pseudalopex culpaeus; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as P. culpaeus.

Discussion: Revised by Zunino et al. (1995). Placed in Pseudalopex by Berta (1987, 1988); and in Dusicyon by Cabrera (1957). Considered in Canis (Pseudalopex) by Langguth (1975), Clutton-Brock et al. (1976), and Van Gelder (1978). Includes culpaeolus (part) and inca (part) mismatched skin and skull (Langguth, 1967). Reviewed by Novaro (1997). Synonyms allocated according to Cabrera (1957), Zunino et al. (1995), and Novaro (1997).

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 579, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Molina
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Canidae
Genus
Lycalopex
Species
culpaeus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lycalopex culpaeus (Molina, 1782) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Molina, G. I. 1782. Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili. Stamperia di S. Tommaso d'Aquino, Bologna.
  • Cabrera, A. 1931. On some South American canine genera. Journal of Mammalogy, 12: 54 - 67.
  • Gray, J. E. 1837 [1838]. On a new species of paradoxure (Paradoxurus derbianus) with remarks on some Mammalia recently purchased by the British Museum, and characters of the new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1837: 67.
  • Zunino, G. E., O. B. Vaccaro, M. Canevari, and A. L. Gardner. 1995. Taxonomy of the genus Lycalopex (Carnivora: Canidae) in Argentina. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 108: 729 - 747.
  • 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.
  • Cabrera, A. 1957 [1958] - 1961. Catalogo de los mamiferos de America del Sur. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales " Bernardino Rivadavia ". Ciencias Zoologicas, 4 (1): iv + 308 pp. [1958]; 4 (2): v-xxii + 309 - 732 [1961].
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Van Gelder, R. G. 1978. A review of canid classification. American Museum Novitates, 2646: 1 - 10.
  • Langguth, A. 1967. Sobre la identidad de Dusicyon culpaeolus (Thomas) y de Dusicyon inca (Thomas). Neotropica, 13: 21 - 28.
  • Novaro, A. J. 1997. Pseudalopex culpaeus. Mammalian Species, 558: 1 - 8.