Chadian wild dog
| Chadian wild dog | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Caniformia |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Genus: | Lycaon |
| Species: | L. pictus |
| Subspecies: | L. p. sharicus |
| Trinomial name | |
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Lycaon pictus sharicus Thomas and Wroughton, 1907 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Lycaon pictus ebermaieri |
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Lycaon pictus ebermaieri
(Matschie, 1915)
The Chadian wild dog (Lycaon pictus sharicus syn. Lycaon pictus saharicus) also known as Shari River hunting dog, Saharan wild dog or Central African wild dog is a subspecies of African wild dog native to Central Africa.
It is possibly extinct the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Due to poor populations in Central Africa, the Chadian wild dog is critically endangered and is close to extinction. In the Central African Republic, the Chadian wild dogs currently live in only one protected area, the Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park.
The Chadian wild dog was first described by both naturalists Oldfield Thomas and Robert Charles Wroughton in 1907 under the trinomen Lycaon pictus sharicus from lower Shari River from eastern Lake Chad. It is also sometimes mistakenly known as Lycaon pictus saharicus, named after the Saharan desert. The specimens from Tanezrouft, Algeria were indicated as a distinct race though it is possibly applicable to the Shari River subspecies.
Once widespread, the Chadian wild dog lived in northern Congo, Chad, Central African Republic, Niger, southern Algeria, Libya, eastern Sudan.
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