The Zoochat Photographic Guide To Canids

[TeaLovingDave]

Side-striped Jackal (Lupulella adustus)

The range of this species extends across much of sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east, and south to Angola and northern South Africa, but is absent from the Congo River basin.

Seven subspecies recognised:

L. a. adustus - photo by @zootiger

L. a. bweha
L. a. centralis
L. a. grayi
L. a. kaffensis
L. a. lateralis
L. a. notatus - photo by @Hix

 

[TeaLovingDave]

Black-backed Jackal (Lupulella mesomelas)

The range of the species comprises two widely-disjunct populations in South Africa and East Africa.

Two subspecies recognised:

L. m. mesomelas - photo by @Tim May

L. m. schmidti - photo by @LaughingDove

 

[TeaLovingDave]

SOUTH AMERICAN CANIDS


This lineage comprises 10 species within five genera:

Bush Dog Speothos venaticus

Maned Wolf Chrysocyon brachyurus

Culpeo Lycalopex culpaeus
Darwin's Fox Lycalopex fulvipes
Patagonian Fox Lycalopex griseus
Pampas Fox Lycalopex gymnocercus
Sechuran Fox Lycalopex sechurae
Hoary Fox Lycalopex vetulus

Crab-eating Fox Cerdocyon thous

Short-eared Dog Atelocynus microtis

 

[Ituri]

Coyote (Canis latrans)

The original range of this species was restricted to the western United States, Central America and southwestern Canada; however with the extirpation of the Grey Wolf, Red Wolf and Eastern Wolf from large portions of North America the range of the species has substantially increased and it now extends across the vast majority of the continent, south as far as Panama and missing only from the extreme north-east of Canada.

19 subspecies proposed; many of these may comprise regional variants given the recent spread of the species into the areas in question.

C. l. latrans
C. l. cagottis - photo by @Adam Khor

C. l. clepticus
C. l. dickeyi
C. l. frustor
C. l. goldmani
C. l. hondurensis
C. l. impavidus
C. l. incolatus
C. l. jamesi
C. l. lestes
C. l. mearnsi - photo by @ThylacineAlive

C. l. microdon
C. l. ochropus
C. l. peninsulae
C. l. texensis - photo by @ThylacineAlive

C. l. thamnos
C. l. umpquensis
C. l. vigilis

Moreover, populations in the eastern United States and Canada comprise introgressive hybrids between C. latrans, C. lupus and C. lycaon:

Photo by @savethelephant

I have lestes and frustor I can upload.

EDIT: done.

 

[TheGerenuk]

@TeaLovingDave , you have done another spectacular job so far! Keep up the good work!

 

[TeaLovingDave]

I have lestes and frustor I can upload.

EDIT: done.

Excellent - I have edited the relevant post.

 

[Brum]

As for whether to call them a jackal or a wolf, I sometimes do one and sometimes the other

I personally call it a wolf even though it appears (to my none-expert eye) more similar to a jackal than a wolf.

And I would like to also register my appreciation of these photographic guides, you and @Chlidonias are doing a fantastic job!

 

[ThylacineAlive]

Probably the most interesting and exciting series of threads on ZooChat right now! Thanks to all involved in making these possible.

Would it perhaps make more sense to combine all the Carnivora threads together, though?

~Thylo

 

[lintworm]

African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

Five subspecies are recognised:

L. p. pictus - photo by @Maguari

L. p. lupinus
L. p. manguensis
L. p. sharicus
L. p. somalicus

I am curious where you get all your subspecies from as HMW, Mammals of Africa and the IUCN do not recognize any....

 

[Sheather]

I'm of the impression that the Canis lupus species is one extremely varied species which includes the dingo and Eastern wolf and occurs as a cline with the coyote, this has been supported with DNA evidence.

 

[TeaLovingDave]

I am curious where you get all your subspecies from as HMW, Mammals of Africa and the IUCN do not recognize any....

As I alluded elsewhere, canine taxonomy is so hotly debated that (as several individuals remarked they would like to see subspecies as in my feline thread rather than a purely species-level approach as in my small carnivore thread) I am mostly aiming for the widest interpretation possible to forestall anyone complaining that some taxon or other has been omitted see also the Coyote entry, which contains far more subspecies than I would personally recognise.

 

[lintworm]

As I alluded elsewhere, canine taxonomy is so hotly debated that (as several individuals remarked they would like to see subspecies as in my feline thread rather than a purely species-level approach as in my small carnivore thread) I am mostly aiming for the widest interpretation possible to forestall anyone complaining that some taxon or other has been omitted see also the Coyote entry, which contains far more subspecies than I would personally recognise.

ok, maybe it is good to mention where the subspecies are debated and where not

In that case I have pictures from a Culpeo and a Patagonian grey fox from southern Patagonia, would these be putative subspecies still missing and thus worth uploading? The same goes for distant pictures of African wild dog in Tanzania.

 

[Chlidonias]

C. l. filchneri - photo by @Chlidonias

That's interesting. I had these down as chanco, I think probably because the Mammals of India field guide had a wider reach for chanco and thus used this classification (I don't have the book to hand to check). After some reading on Google, maybe I will have to change to filchneri instead.

 

[carlos55]

El regreso del lobo mexicano | Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales | Gobierno | gob.mx
Your information on the mexican grey wolf or lobo is outdated. There are over 28 lobos released into protected areas in the mexican state of Chihuahua, and some have moved into the state of Sonora. The released lobos have already bred. Most but not all came from mexican zoos that participate in the binational mexican wolf recovery plan.

 

[TeaLovingDave]

In that case I have pictures from a Culpeo and a Patagonian grey fox from southern Patagonia, would these be putative subspecies still missing and thus worth uploading? The same goes for distant pictures of African wild dog in Tanzania.

Haven't started looking for the South American taxa yet, but it's always worth uploading more to be on the safe side and the Tanzanian wild dog will be handy too.

 

[Jurek7]

Any chance that these threads include links to the original information: where and when the photo was taken?

 

[lintworm]

You'll get competition:

Canids of the World: Wolves, Wild Dogs, Foxes, Jackals, Coyotes, and Their Relatives

The same author as for the interesting but flawed Bovid field guide....

 

[TeaLovingDave]

You'll get competition:

Canids of the World: Wolves, Wild Dogs, Foxes, Jackals, Coyotes, and Their Relatives

The same author as for the interesting but flawed Bovid field guide....

Yep, I read a proof copy some time ago. It's good but I anticipate people complaining about certain splits.

 

[TZDugong]

Like your last two threads, excellent work @TeaLovingDave ! I just can't get enough of these threads.

 

[TinoPup]

You'll get competition:

Canids of the World: Wolves, Wild Dogs, Foxes, Jackals, Coyotes, and Their Relatives

The same author as for the interesting but flawed Bovid field guide....

The Princeton Press website has a 20 page preview: http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/i13221.pdf

Edit: On page 20, the dog in the bottom right isn't a Pomeranian, as it's labeled. It's a Klein German Spitz. Which of course makes me automatically question anything else in the book, if something that simple is wrong...