TY - JOUR AU - Viranta, Suvi AU - Atickem, Anagaw AU - Werdelin, Lars AU - Stenseth, Nils Chr. PY - 2017 DA - 2017/04/19 TI - Rediscovering a forgotten canid species JO - BMC Zoology SP - 6 VL - 2 IS - 1 AB - The African wolf, for which we herein recognise Canis lupaster Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1832 (Symbolae Physicae quae ex Itinere Africam Borealem er Asoam Occidentalem Decas Secunda. Berlin, 1833) as the valid species name (we consider the older name Canis anthus Cuvier, 1820 [Le Chacal de Sénégal, Femelle. In: Geoffroy St.-Hilaire E, Cuvier F, editors. Histoire Naturelle des Mammifères Paris, A. Belin, 1820] a nomen dubium), is a medium-sized canid with wolf-like characters. Because of phenotypic similarity, specimens of African wolf have long been assigned to golden jackal (Canis aureus Linnaeus, 1758 [Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata, 1758]). SN - 2056-3132 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40850-017-0015-0 DO - 10.1186/s40850-017-0015-0 ID - Viranta2017 ER -