African wild dog
Species of canid native to Sub-Saharan Africa
The African wild dog or painted dog (Lycaon pictus) is a carnivorous mammal of the Canidae family.[2] It lives by hunting antelopes. In past centuries it had a wide distribution in Africa.
| African Wild Dog Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene – present (200,000–0 years BP)
| |
|---|---|
.jpg)
| |
| At Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Subfamily: | Caninae |
| Tribe: | Canini |
| Genus: | Lycaon |
| Species: | L. pictus
|
| Binomial name | |
| Lycaon pictus (Temminck, 1820)
| |
| |
| L. pictus range | |
ReferencesEdit
| Wikispecies has information on: Lycaon pictus. |
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lycaon pictus. |
- ↑ Woodroffe, R. & Sillero-Zubiri, C. (2012). "Lycaon pictus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2012: e.T12436A16711116.
- ↑ Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. JHU Press. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
