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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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