Caninae

Taxobox
name = Caninae
fossil_range = early Miocene - Recent


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image_caption = "Eucyon davisi" fossil
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
familia = Canidae
subfamilia = Caninae
subfamilia_authority = G. Fischer de Waldheim, 1817
subdivision_ranks = Generacite book | author = McKenna, M. C, and S. K. Bell | year = 1997 | title = Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level | publisher = Columbia University Press | id = ISBN 023111012X] Lyras G.A., Van der Geer A.E., Dermitzakis M., De Vos J. (2006) "Cynotherium sardous", an insular canid (Mammalia: Carnivora) from the Pleistocene of Sardinia (Italy), and its origin. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 26, No. 3 pp. 735–745 ] MSW3 Wozencraft | id=14000696] cite journal | author = Sotnikova, M. | year = 2006 | title = A new canid Nurocyon chonokhariensis gen. et sp. nov.(Canini, Canidae, Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Mongolia | journal = COURIER-FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT SENCKENBERG | volume = 256 | pages = 11 | url = http://quarter.ginras.ru/personal/sotnikova/docs/sotnikova2006b.pdf | accessdate = 2008-05-04]
subdivision =
* "Atelocynus"
* "Canis"
* "Cerdocyon"
* "Chrysocyon"
* "Cuon"
* †"Cynotherium"
* †"Dusicyon"
* †"Eucyon"
* †"Leptocyon"
* "Lycalopex"
* "Lycaon"
* †"Nurocyon"
* "Nyctereutes"
* "Otocyon"
* †"Protocyon"
* †"Prototocyon"
* "Speothos"
* †"Theriodictis"
* "Urocyon"
* "Vulpes"
* †"Xenocyon"

The subfamily Caninae includes all living canids and their closest fossil relatives such as the Sardinian Dhole. More basal canids are placed in the extinct subfamilies Hesperocyoninae and Borophaginae.

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