Canis lupus dingo
| Canis lupus dingo | |
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| Australian dingo | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Genus: | Canis |
| Species: | Canis lupus |
| Subspecies: | C. lupus dingo |
| Trinomial name | |
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Canis lupus dingo (Canis dingo Meyer, 1793) |
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| Synonyms | |
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C. antarticus (Kerr, 1792) [suppressed ICZN],C. familiaris australasiae (Desmarest, 1820),C. australiae (Gray, 1826),C. dingo (Meyer, 1793),C. dingoides (Matschie, 1915),C. macdonnellensis (Matschie, 1915),C. familiaris novaehollandiae (Voigt, 1831),C. papuensis (Ramsay, 1879), C. tenggerana (Kohlbrugge, 1896),C. hallstromi (Troughton, 1957),C. harappensis (Prashad, 1936) |
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C. antarticus (Kerr, 1792) [suppressed ICZN],C. familiaris australasiae (Desmarest, 1820),C. australiae (Gray, 1826),C. dingo (Meyer, 1793),C. dingoides (Matschie, 1915),C. macdonnellensis (Matschie, 1915),C. familiaris novaehollandiae (Voigt, 1831),C. papuensis (Ramsay, 1879), C. tenggerana (Kohlbrugge, 1896),C. hallstromi (Troughton, 1957),C. harappensis (Prashad, 1936)
The taxon dingo refers to the native dog found in Australia but may at times also refer to some similar dogs native to peninsular and island southeast Asia and neighboring regions, such as the New Guinea singing dog. It has been designated a species of the dog genus (Canis dingo) and more recently a subspecies of Canis lupus (gray wolf) within the taxonomic classification of Canis lupus dingo.
The genetic evidence indicates that the dingo clade originated from East Asian domestic dogs and was introduced through the South-East Asian archipelago into Australia, with a common ancestry between the Australian dingo and the New Guinea Singing Dog.
In 1758, the taxonomist Linnaeus published in his Systema Naturae the taxonomic classification of species. Canis is a Latin word meaning dog, and under this genus he listed the dog-like carnivores including domestic dogs, wolves, and jackals. He classified the domestic dog as Canis familiaris (Linnaeus, 1758) and on the next page as a separate species he classified the wolf as Canis lupus (Linnaeus, 1758). In 1926, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) ruled in Opinion 91 that the domestic dog Canis familiaris (Linnaeus, 1758) be placed on its official list. In 1957, the ICZN ruled in Opinion 451 that Canis dingo (Meyer, 1793) was the name to be used for the dingo and that this be placed on its official list. These are the scientific names for the dog and dingo that appear on the Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology of the ICZN.
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