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
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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