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Hyaenidae (hyaena)

Taxonomy

Hyaenidae was named by Gray (1821). It is extant. Its type is Hyaena.

It was assigned to Digitigradae by Gray (1821); to Fissipedia by Cope (1889); to Fissipedia by Flower and Lydekker (1891) and Hendey (1974); to Feloidea by Flynn and Galiano (1982); to Carnivora by Nowak (1991); and to Aeluroidea by Mivart (1882), Flower (1883), Carroll (1988), Hunt (1989) and Hunt (1998).

Sister taxa

Felidae, Herpestidae

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Synonyms

Protelidae was named by Flower (1869). It is extant.

It was reranked as the subfamily Protelinae by Mivart (1882); it was synonymized subjectively with Hyaenidae by McKenna and Bell (1997) and Koepfli et al. (2006).

It was assigned to Hyaenidae by Mivart (1882); to Aeluroidea by Flower (1883); to Fissipedia by Cope (1889); to Fissipedia by Flower and Lydekker (1891); and to Feloidea by Koehler and Richardson (1990).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1821	Hyaenidae Gray p. 302
1869	Protelidae Flower p. 37
1882	Hyaenidae Mivart p. 140
1882	Protelinae Mivart p. 143
1883	Hyaenidae Flower p. 185
1883	Protelidae Flower p. 185
1889	Hyaenidae Cope p. 876
1889	Protelidae Cope p. 876
1891	Hyaenidae Flower and Lydekker p. 91
1891	Protelidae Flower and Lydekker p. 91
1974	Hyaenidae Hendey p. 90
1982	Hyaenidae Flynn and Galiano p. 47
1988	Hyaenidae Carroll
1989	Hyaenidae Hunt, Jr. p. 28
1990	Protelidae Koehler and Richardson p. 1
1991	Hyaenidae Nowak
1998	Hyaenidae Hunt, Jr. p. 62

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