Dusicyon

Dusicyon[1]
Temporal range: Late Pliocene to recent
Falkland Islands wolf and D. avus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Subfamily: Caninae
Tribe: Canini
Genus: Dusicyon
C. E. H. Smith, 1839[2]
Type species
Canis australis
Kerr, 1792
Species

Dusicyon is an extinct genus of South American canids.

  1. ^ Wozencraft, W. C. (2005). "Dusicyon". 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. 579. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ^ Jardine's Natur. Libr., 9: 248.