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canid

📅 Updated:2023-11-01
🕒 Created:2018-10-15
🆔 ID:21836

Description

The entirety of the dog family, Canidae. This tag includes the familiar canine subfamily as well as the other two subfamilies of canid: Borophaginae (bone-crushing dogs) and Hesperocyoninae (basal canids). "Canine" refers only to the subfamily of Caninae, "canid" being the correct term to refer to the entire Canidae family. Use `canid` when searching for all members of the family.

Subfamilies, genera, and species:

Subfamilies, genera, and species
canid
canid - family Canidae (Fischer de Waldheim, 1817)
canine
canine - Subfamily Canidae (Fischer de Waldheim, 1817)
atelocynus
Atelocynus (Ángel Cabrera, 1940)
Canis
Canis (Carl Linnaeus, 1758)
  • coyote - Canis latrans (Thomas Say, 1823)
  • dingo - Canis dingo (Friedrich A.A. Meyer, 1793)
  • golden jackal - Canis aureus (Carl Linnaeus, 1758)
wolf
  • African golden wolf - Canis lupaster (Wilhelm F. Hemprich; Christian G. Ehrenberg, 1832)
    • Egyptian wolf - Canis lupaster lupaster (Wilhelm F. Hemprich; Christian G. Ehrenberg, 1833)
  • Ethiopian wolf - Canis simensis (Eduard Rüppell, 1840)
grey wolf
grey wolf - Canis lupus (Carl Linnaeus, 1758)
  • [Alaskan tundra wolf]] - Canis lupus tundrarum (Gerrit S. Miller Jr, 1912)
  • [Alexander Archipelago wolf]] - Canis lupus ligoni (Edward A. Goldman, 1937)
  • Arctic wolf - Canis lupus arctos (Reginald Innes Pocock, 1935)
  • Arabian wolf - Canis lupus arabs (Reginald Innes Pocock, 1934)
  • domestic dog - Canis lupus familiaris (Carl Linnaeus, 1758)
    • (see wiki page for breeds)
  • Eurasian wolf - Canis lupus lupus (Carl Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Mexican wolf - Canis lupus baileyi (Edward W. Nelson; Edward A. Goldman, 1929)
  • Iberian wolf - Canis lupus signatus (Ángel Cabrera, 1907)
  • Indian wolf - Canis lupus pallipes (William Henry Sykes, 1831)
  • Italian wolf - Canis lupus italicus (Giuseppe Altobello, 1921)
  • †Japanese wolf - Canis lupus hodophilax (Coenraad J. Temminck, 1839)
  • tundra wolf - Canis lupus albus (Robert Kerr, 1792)
  • Vancouver Island wolf - Canis lupus crassodon (Eugene Raymond Hall, 1932)
[section,expanded=red wolf]red wolf - Canis rufus (John J. Audubon; John Bachman, 1851)
Cerdocyon
Cerdocyon (C.E.H. Smith, 1839)
Chrysocyon
Chrysocyon (Charles S. Smith, 1839)
  • maned wolf - Chrysocyon brachyurus (Johann K.W. Illiger, 1815)
cuon
Cuon - (B. Houghton Hodgson, 1838)
  • dhole - Cuon alpinus (Peter Simon Pallas, 1811)
Lupulella
Lupulella (O.J. Max Hilzheimer, 1906)
Jackal
Lycalopex
Lycalopex (K. Hermann Burmeister 1854)
Lycaon
Lycaon (Joshua Brookes, 1827)
Nyctereutes
Nyctereutes (Coenraad J. Temminck, 1838)
raccoon dog
Speothos
Speothos (Peter Wilhelm Lund, 1839)
  • bush dog - Speothos venaticus (Peter Wilhelm Lund, 1842)
Octocyon
Otocyon (Salomon Müller, 1835)
  • bat-eared fox - Otocyon megalotis (Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, 1822)
Urocyon
Urocyon (Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1857)
  • grey fox - Urocyon cinereoargenteus (J.C.D. von Schreber, 1774)
  • island fox - Urocyon littoralis (Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1857)
Vulpes
Vulpes (F.A.P. de Garsault, 1764)
fox
fox
Arctic fox - Vulpes lagopus (Carl Linnaeus, 1758)
Aenocyon
†Aenocyon (John Campbell Merriam, 1918)
  • †dire wolf - Aenocyon dirus (Joseph Leidy, 1858)
†Borophagine
†Borophagine]Subfamily Borophaginae (George Gaylord Simpson, 1945)
†Hesperocyonine
†Hesperocyonine - subfamily Hesperocyoninae (R.L. Tedford, 1978)
†Paraenhydrocyon (Xiaoming Wang, 1994)

Real-world Hybrids

Real-world Hybrids

Fictional/mythical species & hybrids

Fictional/mythical species & hybrids
Pokemon
Werewolf

General Anatomy

General Anatomy

More information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canidae

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