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Canis (canine)

Taxonomy

Canis was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. Its type is Canis familiaris. It is the type genus of Canidae.

It was assigned to Ferae by Linnaeus (1758); to Canina by Gray (1825); to Caninae by Bjork (1970); and to Canidae by Linnaeus (1758), Schultz and Howard (1935), Carroll (1988), Shoshani et al. (1989), Geraads (1997), Cisneros (2005) and Burney et al. (2008).

Species

C. (Pseudalopex), C. adustus, C. antarcticus, C. anthus, C. apolloniensis, C. armbrusteri, C. aureus, C. cedazoensis, C. dingo, C. dirus (syn. C. ayersi, C. indianensis, C. mississippiensis), C. edwardii, C. familiaris (syn. Pachycyon robustus) (type species), C. ferox, C. latrans (syn. C. andersoni, C. caneloensis, C. clepticus, C. estor, C. frustror, C. goldmani, C. hondurensis, C. impavidus, C. irvingtonensis, C. jamesi, C. lestes, C. mearnsi, C. microdon, C. nebrascensis, C. ochropus, C. orcutti, C. pallidus, C. peninsulae, C. riviveronis, C. vigilis, Lyciscus cagottis), C. lepophagus, C. lupus (syn. C. furlongi, C. lycaon, C. milleri, C. nubilus, C. occidentalis, C. pambasileus, C. petrolei, C. tundrarum, C. variabilis, Lupus gigas), C. mesomelas, C. morenis, C. niger, C. palaeoplatensis, C. primigenius, C. proplatensis, C. rufus (syn. C. floridanus, C. priscolatrans, Lupus niger)

Species lacking formal opinion data

C. arnensis, C. etruscus, C. falconeri, C. kronstadtensis, C. lupaster, C. mosbachensis, C. multicuspus, C. senezensis, C. spelaeus, C. terblanchei

Sister genera

Alopex, Atelocynus, Cerdocyon, Chailicyon, Chrysocyon, Cuon, Cynotherium, Dusicyon, Eucyon, Gobicyon, Leptocyon, Neocynodesmus, Nyctereutes, Plesiocyon, Protocyon, Prototocyon, Speothos, Theriodictis, Urocyon, Vulpes (syn. Vulpes alopex)

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Synonyms

Pachycyon was named by Allen (1885). It is not extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Canis by Berta (1988).

It was assigned to Canidae by Allen (1885).
Aenocyon was named by Merriam (1918).

It was synonymized subjectively with Canis by Stock et al. (1946), Kurten and Anderson (1972), Lundelius (1972), Martin (1974), Nowak (1979), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Kurten (1984) and Berta (1988).
Lyciscus was named by Hamilton-Smith (1839).

It was synonymized subjectively with Canis by Nelson (1932) and Hall (1981).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Canis Linnaeus
1825	Canis Gray p. 339
1839	Lyciscus Hamilton-Smith
1885	Pachycyon Allen p. 4
1918	Aenocyon Merriam
1935	Canis Schultz and Howard p. 284
1970	Canis Bjork p. 13
1988	Canis Carroll
1989	Canis Shoshani et al. p. 436
1997	Canis Geraads p. 150
2005	Canis Cisneros p. 245
2008	Canis Burney et al. p. 19

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