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GENUS Cuon
| Author: | Hodgson, 1838. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 1: 152. | | Type Species: | Canis primaevus Hodgson, 1838 (=Canis alpinus Pallas, 1811) by monotypy (Melville and Smith, 1987). Conserved by Opinion 384 (1956a). | | Comments: | Placed in subfamily Simocyoninae Dawkins, 1868, by Simpson (1945) and Stains (1975). Tedford et al. (1995) considered Cuon and Lycaon to be sister taxa. |
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| Offspring: SPECIES alpinus SUBSPECIES alpinus SUBSPECIES hesperius SUBSPECIES sumatrensis | Synonyms:
Anurocyon Heude, 1888
Chrysaeus C. E. H. Smith, 1839
Cyon Agassiz, 1842
Primaevus Gray, 1843
Primoevus Hodgson, 1842
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