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Dusicyon griseus

Description

Dusicyon griseus (Gray, 1837). Mag. Nat. Hist., 1:578.

TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, Coast of Magellan Straits.

DISTRIBUTION: Atacama (Chile) and Santiago del Estero (Argentina) south to Tierra del Fuego.

COMMENT: Subgenus Dusicyon or Pseudalopex; see Cabrera, 1958:233; 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 fulvipes; see Corbet and Hill, 1980:93; Langguth, 1969, Z. Wiss. Zool., p. 179.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as D. griseus.

CITES - Appendix II as D. fulvipes.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412001007002001.

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
Gray
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Canidae
Genus
Dusicyon
Species
griseus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dusicyon griseus (Gray, 1837) 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.
  • Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1980. A world list of mammalian species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp.