Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Carnivora > Canidae

Canidae (coyotes, dogs, foxes, jackals, and wolves) Endangered

Synonyms: Amphicyon angustidens; Cynodictis angustidens; Daphoenus angustidens; Hesperocyon angustidens; Pseudocynodictis angustidens

Wikipedia Abstract

The biological family Canidae /ˈkænᵻdiː/ is a lineage of carnivorans that includes domestic dogs, wolves, foxes, jackals, dingoes, and many other extant and extinct dog-like mammals. A member of this family is called a canid (/ˈkænᵻd/, /ˈkeɪnᵻd/). The cat-like feliforms and dog-like caniforms emerged within the Carnivoramorpha 43 million years before present. The caniforms included the fox-like Leptocyon genus whose various species existed from 34 million years before present before branching 11.9 million YBP into Vulpini (foxes) and Canini (canines).
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Genus

Canis (dogs, jackals, and wolves) (1)
Cuon (dhole) (1)
Lycalopex (South American foxes) (1)
Lycaon (African wild dog) (1)

(...) = Species count

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0