Lycaon pictus

(Temminck, 1820)

African Wild Dog

Oblique view. Also as Painted Hunting Dog|Painted Dog.
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Location:USA, CA, San Diego Co., San Diego ZooDate taken:Jan 1, 1987

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 969

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Carnivora
Suborder : Caniformia
Infraorder : Cynoidea
Family : Canidae
Subfamily : Caninae
Tribe : Canini
Genus : Lycaon

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Temminck, C.J. 1820. Sur le genre Hyène, et description d'une espèce nouvelle, découverte en Afrique. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques 3:46-57.

Authority publication link

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3080673?urlappend=%3Bseq=68%3Bownerid=9007199272976022-72

Original name as described

Hyaena picta

Other common names

Painted Hunting Dog · Painted Dog

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

coastal Mozambique.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Angola · Benin · Botswana · Burkina Faso · Central African Republic · Chad · Ethiopia · Kenya · Malawi · Mozambique · Namibia · Niger · Senegal · South Africa · South Sudan · Sudan · Tanzania · Zambia · Zimbabwe · Democratic Republic of the Congo? · Cote d'Ivoire? · Guinea-Bissau? · Mali? · Nigeria? · Togo? · Uganda? · Algeria? · Guinea?

IUCN Red List status

Endangered

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005960

Country distribution map

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KnownPredicted distribution

Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 54 names and synonyms.

Hyaena picta

(Temminck, 1820)

Family

Canidae

Root name

pictus

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type kind

syntypes

Authority page

54

Authority page URI

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3080673?urlappend=%3Bseq=68%3Bownerid=9007199272976022-72

Authority publication

Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques

Name usages

  1. Temminck (1820:54, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3080673?urlappend=%3Bseq=68%3Bownerid=9007199272976022-72) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69238)
  2. Schinz (1821:229, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51528990) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37604)
  3. Griffith (1822:109, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53016338) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68342)

canis pictus

(A. G. Desmarest, 1822)

Family

Canidae

Root name

pictus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

538

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39521982

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

  1. Desmarest (1822:538, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39521982) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36189)
  2. Anonymous (1825:1018, https://books.google.com/books?id=UGIsAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1018) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68862)
  3. Lesson (1827:170, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207638) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)
  4. Fischer (1829:180) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)
  5. Wagler (1830:30, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38965728) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/56273)
  6. Smuts (1832:14, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43088723) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/60235)
  7. Blainville (1843:33, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57989167) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68408)

Hyaena venatica

(Burchell, 1822)

Family

Canidae

Root name

venaticus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

456

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47297477

Authority publication

London

Name usages

Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)

Hyæna varicolor

(Griffith, 1822)

Family

Canidae

Root name

varicolor

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

111

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53016342

Authority publication

London

Name usages

Griffith (1822:111, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53016342) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68342)

Canis hyaenoides

(H. R. Schinz, 1825)

Family

Canidae

Root name

hyaenoides

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_novum

Type kind

syntypes

Authority page

340

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51523757

Authority publication

Stuttgart

Name usages

Schinz (1825:340, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51523757) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/66129)

Canis Tricolor

(J. E. Gray, 1827)

Family

Canidae

Root name

tricolor

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

preoccupied

Authority page

151

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34790345

Authority publication

London

Name usages

Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)

Lycaon Tricolor

Burnett, 1830

Family

Canidae

Root name

tricolor

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

349

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3909459

Authority publication

Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and Art

Name usages

Burnett (1830:349, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3909459) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/44017)

Lycaon typicus

A. Smith, 1833

Family

Canidae

Root name

typicus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

91

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15968207

Authority publication

South African Quarterly Journal

Name usages

Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)

Lycaon pictus

Ehrenberg, 1833

Family

Canidae

Root name

pictus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

sig. ff p. 2

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48508428

Authority publication

Berlin

Name usages

  1. Ehrenberg (1833:@sig. ff p. 2, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48508428) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68841)
  2. Gistel (1848:257, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25781138) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69572)
  3. Fitzinger (1855:195) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/65926)
  4. Sclater (1872:51, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17037828) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/61617)
  5. Heuglin (1877:48, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36876379) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/66584)
  6. Noack (1887:256, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10356296) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67855)
  7. Matschie (1895:63, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14835456) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67260)
  8. Thomas (1898:678, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7785900) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67728)
  9. Thomas (1898:931, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30988170) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35378)
  10. de Winton (1899:551, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30951594) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/14084)
  11. Thomas (1901:803, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35995123) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67677)
  12. Thomas (1904:98, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27733825) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/16538)
  13. Trouessart (1904:241, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53423122) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)
  14. Wroughton (1907:9, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34063315) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68769)
  15. Thomas & Wroughton (1907:375, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24254835) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/16293)
  16. Lydekker (1908:455, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18741675) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39820)
  17. Berger (1910:339, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43615790) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67836)
  18. Matschie (1912:311, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43604363) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69060)
  19. Roberts (1913:102, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50439560) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/17656)
  20. Matschie (1915:313, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43609547) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69070)
  21. Shortridge (1934:180) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69309)
  22. Zimara (1935:11) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67232)
  23. Allen (1939:189, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2781990) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5450)
  24. Hill & Carter (1941:142) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/16955)
  25. Shortridge (1942:40, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40888919) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/48770)
  26. Setzer (1956:552, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7489158) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5501)
  27. Kurtén (1968:114) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5363)
  28. Coetzee (1971:4) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67173)
  29. Corbet & Hill (1980:93) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  30. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:247) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  31. Corbet & Hill (1991:103) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  32. Wozencraft (1993:283) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69009)
  33. Yalden, Largen, Kock & Hillman (1996:97) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36072)
  34. Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)
  35. Wilson & Mittermeier (2009:423) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67177)
  36. Geraads (2011:441) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/11706)
  37. Kingdon & Hoffman (2013:51) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27643)
  38. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #12436) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  39. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #12436) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  40. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005960) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  41. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/12436/166502262) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Cynhyœna picta

(Lesson, 1842)

Family

Canidae

Root name

pictus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

38

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

Lesson (1842:38) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)

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