Atelocynus Cabrera 1940

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 573

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scientific name	Atelocynus Cabrera 1940
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Atelocynus Cabrera 1940 View in CoL

Atelocynus Cabrera 1940 View in CoL , Notas Mus. La Plata, 5: 14.

Type Species: Canis microtis Sclater 1883

Synonyms: Carcinocyon J. A. Allen 1905 .

Species and subspecies: 1 species with 2 subspecies:

Species Atelocynus microtis (Sclater 1882)

Subspecies Atelocynus microtis subsp. microtis Sclater 1882

Subspecies Atelocynus microtis subsp. sclateri J. A. Allen 1905

Discussion: See comments under Dusicyon . Placed in Atelocynus by Cabrera (1931, 1957), Langguth (1975), Stains (1975), Berta (1985, 1986, 1988) and McKenna and Bell (1997). Van Gelder (1978) considered Atelocynus a subgenus of Canis . Tedford et al. (1995) placed it as the sister taxon to Speothos .