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Cerdocyon thous (crab eating fox)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

Taxonomy
Canis thous was named by Linnaeus (1766). It is extant.

It was recombined as Carcinocyon thous by Allen (1905); it was recombined as Cerdocyon thous by Cabrera (1931), van Gelder (1978), Bertram and Biewener (1990) and Wang et al. (2008).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1766Canis thous Linnaeus
1792Viverra cancrivora Brongniart
1820Canis cancrivorus Desmarest
1824Canis azarae Wied
1839Cerdocyon guaraxa Hamilton Smith
1841Canis melampus Wagner
1843Canis brachyteles Blainville
1843Canis robustior Lund
1843Canis melanostomus Wagner
1861Canis entrerianus Burmeister
1875Pseudalopex azarae Bourguignat
1879Canis rudis Günther
1883Pseudalopex azarae Pelzeln
1898Urocyon aquilus Bangs
1905Carcinocyon thous Allen
1914Cerdocyon mimax Thomas
1918Cerdocyon apollinaris Allen
1921Cerdocyon tucumanus Thomas
1931Cerdocyon thous Cabrera
1978Cerdocyon thous van Gelder
1990Cerdocyon thous Bertram and Biewener p. 160
2008Cerdocyon thous Wang et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Ferae()
—CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
—CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
familyCanidae
subfamilyCaninaeGill 1872
tribeCaniniFischer de Waldheim 1817
subtribeCerdocyonina
genusCerdocyonHamilton-Smith 1839
speciesthous(Linnaeus 1766)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Cerdocyon thous Linnaeus 1766 [crab eating fox]
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Invalid names: Canis azarae Wied 1824 [synonym], Canis brachyteles Blainville 1843 [synonym], Canis cancrivorus Brongniart 1792 [synonym], Canis entrerianus Burmeister 1861 [synonym], Canis melampus Wagner 1841 [synonym], Canis melanostomus Wagner 1843 [synonym], Canis robustior Lund 1843 [synonym], Canis rudis Günther 1879 [synonym], Cerdocyon apollinaris Allen 1918 [synonym], Cerdocyon guaraxa Hamilton Smith 1839 [synonym], Cerdocyon mimax Thomas 1914 [synonym], Cerdocyon tucumanus Thomas 1921 [synonym], Urocyon aquilus Bangs 1898 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: ground dwellingf
Diet: carnivoreg
Diet 2: omnivoreg
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2009-01-04 14:16:37
Modified: 2009-01-04 16:16:37
Source: g = genus, f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Van Valkenburgh 1988, Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Lujanian0.781 - 0.012Uruguay Cerdocyon thous (212685)
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene0.129 - 0.0Brazil (Bahia) Cerdocyon thous (71313)
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene0.129 - 0.0Brazil (Rio Grande do Norte) Cerdocyon thous (148309)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Venezuela (Guarico) Cerdocyon thous (21686)