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).