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The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus), also called painted dog and Cape hunting dog, is a wild canine native to sub-Saharan Africa.It is the largest wild canine in Africa, and the only extant member of the genus Lycaon, which is distinguished from Canis by dentition highly specialised for a hypercarnivorous diet and by a lack of dewclaws.
Lycaon is a genus of canid which includes the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) ... It branched from the wolflike canids lineage during the Plio-Pleistocene.
10 of the 13 extant canid genera left-to-right, top-to-bottom: Canis, Cuon, Lycaon, Cerdocyon, Chrysocyon, Speothos, Vulpes, Nyctereutes, Otocyon, and Urocyon Canidae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, which includes domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, foxes, jackals, dingoes, and many other extant and extinct dog-like mammals.
Xenocyon ("strange dog") is an extinct group of canids, either considered a distinct genus [2] or a subgenus of Canis.The group includes Canis (Xenocyon) africanus, Canis (Xenocyon) antonii and Canis (Xenocyon) falconeri that gave rise to Canis (Xenocyon) lycanoides. [3]
Canidae (/ ˈ k æ n ɪ d iː /; [3] from Latin, canis, "dog") is a biological family of dog-like carnivorans, colloquially referred to as dogs, and constitutes a clade. A member of this family is also called a canid ( / ˈ k eɪ n ɪ d / ). [ 4 ]
This is a list of the species of Canidae ordered by average weights of adult individuals in the wild. ... Lycaon pictus: 20-30 [17] 36 [18] 1.10-1.40 [19] 1.5 [20] 75 ...
The wolf-like canids are a group of large carnivores that are genetically closely related because they all possess 78 chromosomes, arranged in 39 pairs and are karyologically indistinguishable from each other. [1] [2]: p279 [3] The group includes the genera Canis, Cuon, Lupulella and Lycaon.
In the case of other wild canids, the alpha male may not have exclusive access to the alpha female; [23]: 502 [obsolete source] moreover, other pack members may guard the maternity den used by the alpha female; as with the African wild dog, Lycaon pictus. [24] [full citation needed]