Canidae

The Canidae /ˈkanɨdeː/ is the biological faimily o carnivorous an omnivorous mammals that includes domestic dugs, woufs, tods, jackals, coyotes, an mony ither less kenspeckle livin an extinct dug-lik mammals. A memmer o this family is cried a canid (/ˈkeɪnᵻd/). The Canidae faimily is dealt intae twa tribes: Canini (kin o woufs) an Vulpini (kin o tods). The twa species o the basal Caninae are mair primitive an disnae fit intae aither tribe.

Canids[1] Temporal range: 39.75–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N Late Eocene-Holocene
10 o the 12 livin canid genera left-tae-right, top-tae-bottom: Canis, Cuon, Lycaon, Cerdocyon, Chrysocyon, Speothos, Vulpes, Nyctereutes, Otocyon, an Urocyon
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Caniformia
Faimily:	Canidae G. Fischer de Waldheim, 1817[2]
Genera an speshies
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References

1. Wozencraft, W. C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
2. Fischer de Waldheim, G. 1817. Adversaria zoological. Memoir Societe Naturelle (Moscow) 5:368–428. p372

Freemit airtins

• Canidae at Naitional Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
• African Wild Dug Conservancy