Nyctereutes

Nyctereutes procyonoides

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Canoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Metopophora Cladus: Haptodontiformes Cladus: Sphenacomorpha Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Pantherapsida Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Eutheriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Epicynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliamorpha Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Cladotheria Cladus: Prototribosphenida Cladus: Zatheria Cladus: Tribosphenida Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Cladus: Scrotifera Grandordo: Ferungulata Mirordo: Ferae Cladus: Pan-Carnivora Cladus: Carnivoramorpha Cladus: Carnivoraformes Ordo: Carnivora Subordo: Caniformia Infraordo: Cynoidea Superfamilia: Canoidea

Familia: Canidae
Subfamilia: Caninae
Tribus: Vulpini
Genus: Nyctereutes
Species: N. procyonoides – N. viverrinus – †N. abdeslami – †N. lockwoodi – †N. tingi

Name

Nyctereutes Temminck, 1839

Type species: Canis viverrinus Temminck, 1838

Synonyms

• Nyctoractes Jaeger, 1850

References

• Geraads, D. 1997: Late Pliocene Carnivora from Ahl al Oughlam (Casablanca). Geobios (Villeurbanne), 30(1): 127–164.
• Geraads, D. 2011: A revision of the fossil Canidae (Mammalia) of north-western Africa. Palaeontology, 54(2): 429–446. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01039.x
• Geraads, D.; Alemseged, Z.; Bobe, R.; Reed, D. 2010: Nyctereutes lockwoodi, n. sp., a new canid (Carnivora: Mammalia) from the middle Pliocene of Dikika, Lower Awash, Ethiopia. Journal of vertebrate paleontology, 30(3): 981–987. DOI: 10.1080/02724631003758326
• Tedford, R.H.; Qui, Z. 1991: Pliocene Nyctereutes (Carnivora: Canidae) from Yushe, Shanxi, with comments on Chinese fossil racoon-dogs. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 29(3): 176–189. PDF
• Nyctereutes in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
• Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. Physiol. 5: 285.
• Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.)  2005. Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. 2 volumes. 2142 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Reference page. 
• Nyctereutes Temminck, 1838 – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• Kim, S.-I., Oshida, T., Lee, H., Min, M.-S. & Kimura, J. 2015. Evolutionary and Biogeographical implications of variation in skull morphology of raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides, Mammalia: Carnivora). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 116(1): 856–872. doi:10.1111/bij.12629.  Reference page. 

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus

Vernacular names

• čeština: Nyctereutes
• Deutsch: Marderhund, Enok
• Esperanto: Niktereŭto, Tanuko
• français: Nyctéreute, chien viverrin, tanuki
• 日本語: タヌキ属
• 한국어: 너구리속
• polski: Jenot
• русский: Енотовидные собаки
• 中文: 貉属

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