Lycaon

Lycaon pictus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caniformia
Main Page Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Chordata Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Mammalia Subclassis: Theria Infraclassis: Eutheria Magnordo: Epitheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Ordo: Carnivora Subordo: Caniformia

Familia: Canidae
Genus: Lycaon
Species: L. pictus - †L. sekowei

Name

Lycaon Brookes, 1827

Type species: Lycaon tricolor Brookes, 1827 (= Hyaena picta Temminck, 1820) by monotypy (Melville & Smith, 1987).

Synonyms

• Cynhyaena F.G. Cuvier, 1829
• Hyaenoides Gervais, 1855
• Hyenoides Boitard, 1842
• Kynos Rüppell, 1842

References

• In Griffith et al., Anim. Kingdom, 5: 151.
• Lycaon in Mammal Species of the World.
  Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (eds) (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed).
• Lycaon Brookes, 1827 Report on ITIS
• Hartstone-Rose, A.; Werdelin, L.; Ruiter, D.J., de; Berger, L.R.; Churchill, S.E. 2010: The Plio-Pleistocene ancestor of wild dogs, Lycaon sekowei n. sp. Journal of paleontology, 84: 299-308. doi: 10.1666/09-124.1

links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus

Vernacular names

Italiano: Licaone
日本語: リカオン属
Polski: Likaon