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family Canidae - dogs; wolves; jackals; foxes

mammal family - a family of mammals

Carnivora, order Carnivora - cats; lions; tigers; panthers; dogs; wolves; jackals; bears; raccoons; skunks; and members of the suborder Pinnipedia

canid, canine - any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles

Canis, genus Canis - type genus of the Canidae: domestic and wild dogs; wolves; jackals

wild dog - any of various undomesticated mammals of the family Canidae that are thought to resemble domestic dogs as distinguished from jackals or wolves

Cuon, Cyon, genus Cuon, genus Cyon - Asiatic wild dog

Dusicyon, genus Dusicyon - crab-eating dog

genus Nyctereutes, Nyctereutes - raccoon dogs

genus Lycaeon, Lycaeon - African hunting dog

genus Vulpes, Vulpes - foxes

Alopex, genus Alopex - arctic foxes

genus Urocyon, Urocyon - grey foxes

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Order Carnivora, Family Canidae (Dogs, foxes, Maned foxes).

Variaciones Anatomicas de los Musculos Caudo-Mediales del Antebrazo del Zorro Perruno (Cerdocyon thous)

"Families" are groups within the orders, with dogs found in the family Canidae and in the "genus" Canis.

Dogs vs. Wolves: Why we shouldn't look to wolves to inform us as to how our dogs should be treated or trained, and why words like "pack," "alpha," and "dominance" are nearly always misused

ORDER Family Species DIDELPHIMORPHIA Family Didelphidae Didelphis aurita Wied-Neuwied, 1826 CINGULATA Family Dasypodidae Dasypus novemcinctus Linnaeus, 1758 CARNIVORA Family Canidae Canis lupus familiaris Linnaeus, 1758 Cerdocyon thous (Linnaeus, 1766) Family Felidae Leopardus pardalis (Linnaeus, 1758) Puma concolor (Linnaeus, 1771) Family Procyonidae Procyon cancrivorus (G.[Baron] Cuvier, 1798) Nasua nasua (Linnaeus, 1766) Family Mustelidae Eira barbara (Linnaeus, 1758) ARTIODACTYLA Family Cervidae Mazama gouazoubira (G.

Comparison of two mammalian surveys made with camera traps in southeastern Brazil, focusing the abundance of wild mammals and domestic dogs/Comparacao entre duas amostragens de mamiferos feitas com armadilhas fotograficas no sudeste do Brasil, com foco na abundancia de mamiferos silvestres e caes domesticos

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