Senegalese wolf

Senegalese wolf
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Genus: Canis
Species:
C. lupaster
Subspecies:
C. l. anthus
Trinomial name
Canis lupaster anthus
Synonyms
C. aureus senegalensis
(C. E. H. Smith, 1839)

The Senegalese wolf (Canis lupaster anthus), also known as the gray jackal,[2] slender jackal or anthus, is the subspecies of the golden wolf native to Senegal.

  1. ^ Wozencraft, W. C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 532–628. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ^ (in Italian) Motta, F. (editore), Nel Mondo della Natura: Enciclopedia Motta di Scienze Naturali, Zoologia, Quinto Volume, 1957