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Dusicyon culpaeus

Description

Dusicyon culpaeus (Molina, 1782). Sagg. Stor. Nat. Chile, p. 293.

TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, Santiago Prov.

DISTRIBUTION: From Tierra del Fuego along the Andes of Chile and Argentina, the highlands of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia.

COMMENT: Subgenus Dusicyon or Pseudalopex; see Cabrera, 1958:230; Van Gelder, 1978:7. Pseudalopex has been considered a synonym of Dusicyon by Cabrera, 1958:229, and Clutton-Brock et al., 1976, 29(3): 166; a subgenus of Dusicyon by Langguth, 1969, Z. Wiss. Zool., 179: 176; a subgenus of Canis by Langguth, 1975:193, and Van Gelder, 1978:7. Includes culpaeolus (part) and inca (part), mismatched skin and skull; see Langguth, 1967, Neotropica, 13:21-28. AL considers Pseudalopex a distinct genus. Type locality restricted by Cabrera, 1931, J. Mammal., 12:62.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412001007001001.

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 246, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Molina
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Canidae
Genus
Dusicyon
Species
culpaeus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dusicyon culpaeus (Molina, 1782) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Cabrera, A. 1958. Dos felidos argentinos ineditos (Mammalia, Carnivora). Neotropica, 3 (12): 70 - 72.
  • Van Gelder, R. G. 1978. A review of canid classification. American Museum Novitates, 2646: 1 - 10.
  • 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.
  • Langguth, A. 1969. Die sudamerikanischen Canidae unter besonderer Bercksichtigung des Mohnenwolfes, Chrysocyon brachyurus Illiger. Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 179: 1 - 188.
  • 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.
  • Langguth, A. 1967. Sobre la identidad de Dusicyon culpaeolus (Thomas) y de Dusicyon inca (Thomas). Neotropica, 13: 21 - 28.
  • Cabrera, A. 1931. On some South American canine genera. Journal of Mammalogy, 12: 54 - 67.