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GENUS Lycaon

Author:Brookes, 1827.
Citation:In Griffith et al., Anim. Kingdom, 5: 151.
Type Species:Lycaon tricolor Brookes, 1827 (= Hyaena picta Temminck, 1820) by monotypy (Melville and Smith, 1987).
Comments:Placed in Simocyoninae Dawkins, 1868, by Simpson (1945) and Stains (1975). Reviewed by Girman et al. (2001).
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Offspring:

SPECIES pictus

SUBSPECIES pictus

SUBSPECIES lupinus

SUBSPECIES manguensis

SUBSPECIES sharicus

SUBSPECIES somalicus

Synonyms:

    Cynhyaena F. G. Cuvier, 1829
    Hyaenoides Gervais, 1855
    Hyenoides Boitard, 1842
    Kynos Rüppell, 1842

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