Talk:Canis lupus familiaris

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Usually this is Canis familiaris. 24.210.73.62 02:11, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Usually Canis familiaris

Wrong. Canis familiaris is obsolete and has been abolished in 1993. --77.56.250.96 18:24, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Dog in chinese (中文) is gou3, don't know how to make it show up after the chinese characters

Is "gou3" a pronunciation key? If yes, it already appears at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dog#Translations and is probably not needed here. --Georgeryp 06:06, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

canis familiaris or canis canis. there should be more variety of pics-- maybe showing the extremes of breeding traits. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.175.104.240 (talk • contribs) 10:48, 2007-08-27.

I remember a paper published by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Institute that delineated the genetic connections between several of the dog breeds. The data only clarified the species that were very different and those that were very similar. This could be a useful addition to this page. 24.252.199.48 02:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

For the current Wikispecies guidelines on adding images to articles please see Help:Image Guidelines and for the talk behind the guidelines: Help talk:Image Guidelines --Georgeryp 01:54, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Canis familiaris was not "abolished" just because one taxonomist, Wilson, decided without formal justification, to place it as a subspecies of Canis lupus in a mammal species list. C. familiaris does not meet the criteria for a subspecies of C. lupus: genetic tests show there has been effective genetic isolation between the two species for at least 15,000 years despite their world-wide sympatry. Rare hybridization does not indicate the two are the same species, and "similarity" is not a criteria for lumping species. Janice Koler-Matznick