Chadian wild dog

Chad wild dog
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Canidae
Genus:	Lycaon
Species:	L. pictus
Subspecies:	L. p. sharicus
Trinomial name
	Lycaon pictus sharicus; Thomas and Wroughton, 1907
Synonyms
	Lycaon pictus ebermaieri (Matschie, 1915)

The Chad wild dog (Lycaon pictus sharicus), also known as the Shari River hunting dog, the Saharan wild dog or the Central African wild dog, is a subspecies of the African wild dog native to Central Africa.[1]

It is possibly extinct in the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Due to poor populations in Central Africa, the Chad wild dog is critically endangered and is close to extinction.[2] In the Central African Republic, the Chad wild dogs currently live in only one protected area, the Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park.

Taxonomy

The Chad wild dog was first described by both naturalists Oldfield Thomas and Robert Charles Wroughton in 1907 under the trinomen Lycaon pictus sharicus from the lower Shari River and eastern Lake Chad.[1] It is also sometimes mistakenly known as Lycaon pictus saharicus, named after the Sahara Desert. The specimens from Tanezrouft, Algeria were indicated as a distinct race, though it is possibly applicable to the Shari River subspecies.[3]

Distribution and habitat

Once widespread, the Chad wild dog lived in northern Congo, Chad, the Central African Republic, Niger, southern Algeria, Libya and eastern Sudan.

References

Wozencraft, W.C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 532–628. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
Fanshawe, J. H., Ginsberg, J. R., Sillero-Zubiri, C. & Woodroffe, R., eds. 1997. The Status & Distribution of Remaining Wild Dog Populations. In Rosie Woodroffe, Joshua Ginsberg & David MacDonald, eds., Status Survey and Conservation Plan: The African Wild Dog: 11–56. IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group.
Thomas, O. & Wroughton, R. C. (1834). (Lycaon pictus sharicus). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College (1939): 190.

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[MSW3-1] Wozencraft, W.C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 532–628. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

[fanshawe-2] Fanshawe, J. H., Ginsberg, J. R., Sillero-Zubiri, C. & Woodroffe, R., eds. 1997. The Status & Distribution of Remaining Wild Dog Populations. In Rosie Woodroffe, Joshua Ginsberg & David MacDonald, eds., Status Survey and Conservation Plan: The African Wild Dog: 11–56. IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group.

[Smith-3] Thomas, O. & Wroughton, R. C. (1834). (Lycaon pictus sharicus). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College (1939): 190.