Canis lupaster

Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833

African Golden Wolf

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Carnivora
Suborder : Caniformia
Infraorder : Canoidea
Family : Canidae
Genus : Canis

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Symbolae Physicse, Mamm., dec. 2, folio ff, Nov. 1832

Original name as described

Canis lupaster

Other common names

Golden Wolf · African Wolf · Egyptian Wolf

Type material

ZMB:Mam:834

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Fayum, Egypt.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic · Afrotropic

Country distribution

Morocco · Algeria · Tunisia · Mauritania · Senegal · Mali · Burkina Faso · Niger · Nigeria · Chad · Cameroon · Central African Republic · Libya · Egypt · Sudan · South Sudan · Eritrea · Djibouti · Somalia · Ethiopia · Uganda · Kenya · Tanzania

Taxonomy notes

split from C. aureus; the name lupaster is recommended over anthus as the specific epithet since anthus appears to represent a numen dubium due to the lost type specimen possibly representing either this species of Lupulella adusta

Taxonomy notes citation

Rueness, E. K., Asmyhr, M. G., Sillero-Zubiri, C., Macdonald, D. W., Bekele, A., Atickem, A., & Stenseth, N. C. (2011). The cryptic African wolf: Canis aureus lupaster is not a golden jackal and is not endemic to Egypt. PLoS One, 6(1), e16385. · Viranta, S., Atickem, A., Werdelin, L., & Stenseth, N. C. (2017). Rediscovering a forgotten canid species. BMC Zoology, 2(1), 6.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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