Lycaon (genus)

Lycaon Temporal range: 2–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Early Pleistocene – present
African wild dogs
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Canidae
Subfamily:	Caninae
Tribe:	Canini
Genus:	Lycaon Brookes, 1827
Species
L. pictus Temminck 1820 †L. magnus Ewer and Singer, 1956 †L. sekowei Hartstone-Rose et al., 2010

Lycaon is a genus of canid which includes the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) and the extinct species Lycaon sekowei and Lycaon magnus.