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Canidae (canid)
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Taxonomy
Canidae was named by Fischer (1817). It is extant. Its type is Canis.
It was assigned to Digitigradae by Gray (1821); to Ferae by Bonaparte (1850); to Fissipedia by Cope (1889); to Fissipedia by Flower and Lydekker (1891) and Hendey (1974); to Arctoidea by Carroll (1988); to Caniformia by Bryant (1991); to Cynoidea by Flower (1883), Wang and Tedford (1992), Wang (1994) and Wang et al. (1999); to Carnivora by Shoshani et al. (1989), Nowak (1991) and Hulbert and Whitmore (2006); and to Canoidea by Tomiya (2011).
It was assigned to Digitigradae by Gray (1821); to Ferae by Bonaparte (1850); to Fissipedia by Cope (1889); to Fissipedia by Flower and Lydekker (1891) and Hendey (1974); to Arctoidea by Carroll (1988); to Caniformia by Bryant (1991); to Cynoidea by Flower (1883), Wang and Tedford (1992), Wang (1994) and Wang et al. (1999); to Carnivora by Shoshani et al. (1989), Nowak (1991) and Hulbert and Whitmore (2006); and to Canoidea by Tomiya (2011).
Subtaxa
Alopex, Atelocynus, Borophaginae, Canina, Caninae, Canis (syn. Aenocyon, Lyciscus, Pachycyon) (type genus), Cerdocyon, Chailicyon, Chrysocyon, Cuon, Cynotherium, Dusicyon, Eucyon, Gobicyon, Hesperocyoninae, Leptocyon, Neocynodesmus, Nyctereutes, Otocyoninae, Plesiocyon, Protocyon, Prototocyon, Speothos, Theriodictis, Urocyon, Vulpes (syn. Vulpes alopex)
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Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1817 | Canidae Fischer |
| 1821 | Canidae Gray p. 301 |
| 1850 | Canidae Bonaparte p. 1 |
| 1871 | Amphicyon angustidens Marsh |
| 1883 | Canidae Flower p. 186 |
| 1889 | Canidae Cope p. 876 |
| 1891 | Canidae Flower and Lydekker p. 91 |
| 1922 | Cynodictis angustidens Thorpe |
| 1948 | Pseudocynodictis angustidens Hough |
| 1952 | Hesperocyon angustidens Green |
| 1970 | Hesperocyon angustidens Macdonald |
| 1974 | Canidae Hendey p. 67 |
| 1988 | Canidae Carroll |
| 1989 | Canidae Shoshani et al. p. 436 |
| 1991 | Canidae Bryant p. 60 |
| 1991 | Canidae Nowak |
| 1992 | Canidae Wang and Tedford p. 225 |
| 1994 | Canidae Wang p. 18 |
| 1999 | Canidae Wang et al. p. 21 |
| 2006 | Canidae Hulbert and Whitmore p. 5 |
| 2011 | Canidae Tomiya p. 2 |
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