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SPECIES Lycaon pictus

Author:Temminck, 1820.
Citation:Ann. Gen. Sci. Phys., 3: p. 54, pl. 35.
Common Name:African wild dog
Type Locality:"á la côte de Mosambique" [Mozambique].
Distribution:Angola, Botswana, Cameroun, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire (?), Ethiopia, Gambia (?), Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Moçambique, Namibia, Sénégal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Recently extinct: Algeria (?), Benin, Burkina Faso (?), Burundi, Dem. Rep. Congo (?), Eritrea, Gabon, Ghana, Niger, Mauritania, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Togo (Fanshawe et al, 1997).
Status:U. S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Endangered.
Comments:Allocated according to G. M. Allen (1939) and Ellerman et al. (1953). Girman et al. (1993) presented molecular evidence concerning subspecies.
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Offspring:

SUBSPECIES pictus

SUBSPECIES lupinus

SUBSPECIES manguensis

SUBSPECIES sharicus

SUBSPECIES somalicus

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