Brown hyena

Brown hyena
Temporal range: Pliocene – Recent
At the Gemsbok National Park, South Africa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Hyaenidae
Genus: Parahyaena
Hendey, 1974[2]
Species:
P. brunnea
Binomial name
Parahyaena brunnea
(Thunberg, 1820)
Geographic range
Synonyms[3]
  • Hyaena brunnea Thunberg, 1820
  • Hyaena fusca E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1825
  • Hyaena striata A. Smith, 1826
  • Hyaena villosa A. Smith, 1827
  • Hyaena melampus Pocock, 1934

The brown hyena (Parahyaena brunnea), also called strandwolf,[4] is a species of hyena found in Namibia, Botswana, western and southern Zimbabwe,[5] southern Mozambique and South Africa.[6] It is the only extant species in the genus Parahyaena. It is currently the rarest species of hyena.[7] The largest remaining brown hyena population is located in the southern Kalahari Desert and coastal areas in Southwest Africa.[8] The global population of brown hyena is estimated by IUCN at a number between 4,000 and 10,000 and its conservation status is marked as near threatened in the IUCN Red List.[1]

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  2. ^ "Parahyaena Hendey, 1974". uBio. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  3. ^ 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. p. 572. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
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  5. ^ Williams, Samual T.; Williams, Kathryn S.; Joubert, Christoffel J.; Hill, Russell A. (14 January 2016). "The impact of land reform on the status of large carnivores in Zimbabwe". PeerJ. 4: e1537. doi:10.7717/peerj.1537. PMC 4728035. PMID 26819838.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Nowak was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Chapter 4: Rich Man's Table from David MacDonald’s The Velvet Claw BBC books, 1992
  8. ^ Holekamp, Kay. "Home". IUCN Hyaena Specialist Group. IUCN. Archived from the original on 2007-12-24.