Lupulella adusta

(Sundevall, 1847)

Side-striped Jackal

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Sundevall, C.J. 1847. Nya Mammalia från Sydafrika. Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 3:118-121.

Original name as described

Canis adustus

Type locality

South Africa.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Mauritania · Senegal · Gambia · Guinea-Bissau · Mali · Guinea · Sierra Leone · Cote d'Ivoire · Burkina Faso · Ghana · Togo · Benin · Niger · Nigeria · Chad · Cameroon · Central African Republic · Sudan · South Sudan · Ethiopia · Somalia · Uganda · Kenya · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Rwanda · Burundi · Tanzania · Angola · Gabon · Republic of the Congo · Namibia · Zambia · Malawi · Mozambique · Botswana · Zimbabwe · South Africa · Eswatini

Taxonomy notes

moved from Canis to Lupulella

Taxonomy notes citation

Viranta, S., Atickem, A., Werdelin, L., & Stenseth, N. C. (2017). Rediscovering a forgotten canid species. BMC Zoology, 2(6), 1-9.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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