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The Falkland Island wolf is called the Falkland Island fox on the fox page. Which is it? Do me need a redirect? (after someone writes an article, of course!) Rmhermen 15:45, Nov 8, 2003 (UTC)

Both names are in use, but in its appearance this animal is rather a fox than a wolf. I will change it on this page from "wolf" to "fox". If anybody should ever write an article about this animal, a redirect would be a good idea. -- Baldhur 20:52, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Signed for date/time archiving purposes only. William Harris • (talk) • 09:19, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Cerdocyonina branch needs updating

Chilla is a sister taxon to culpeo: L. Tchaicka et al. "Molecular assessment of the phylogeny and biogeography of a recently diversified endemic group of South American canids (Mammalia: Carnivora: Canidae). Genetics and Molecular Biology, 39 (3): 442-451
Falkland Island wolf needs to be included as sister taxon of maned wolf: Slater, G. J.; Thalmann, O.; Leonard, J. A.; Schweizer, R. M.; Koepfli, K.-P.; Pollinger, J. P.; Rawlence, N. J.; Austin, J. J.; Cooper, A.; Wayne, R. K. (2009-11-03). "Evolutionary history of the Falklands wolf" (PDF). Current Biology. 19 (20): R937–R938. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.09.018. ISSN 0960-9822. PMID 19889366. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 4, 2013.Mariomassone (talk) 13:23, 21 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. The cladogram already has updates for Canis and Vulpes so an update for Lycalopex is appropriate. The result for the Falkland wolf looks fairly definitive. Do you want to make the changes or do you want me to do them? Jts1882 | talk 16:12, 21 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Could you? I've tried but I still need to work these cladograms out without making messes of them. Mariomassone (talk) 19:35, 21 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I've also put the Lycalopex section in the Lycalopex article if you plan on adding more images. Jts1882 | talk 07:16, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Why 10 and not 13?

I have no expertise in this subject but cannot understand why only 10 of the 13 extant canid genera are pictured. It seems to me that the average Wiki user would wonder that as well. And, it is the more aggravating because neither here nor in the ‘List of Canids’ are the three missing ones identified. Irish Melkite (talk) 17:10, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The mosaic images in taxoboxes usually just show a representative sample of the taxon's members. There are often too many to show them all. Here you have the additional problem of fitting 13 into a rectangle. For what it's worth the missing genera are Atelocynus, Lupulella and Lycalopex (from listing at List of canids).— Jts1882 | talk 12:17, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Characteristics paragraph

Currently states: "Wild canids are found on every continent except Antarctica, and..." — Australasia only has human-introduced feral canids (dingoes), which are not genuinely wild natives. Shouldn't Australasia be included with Antarctica here? - MPF (talk) 21:35, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dingo are wild canids, and while they are not a native species, they are found in Australasia. The sentence is correct as written. Mediatech492 (talk) 22:40, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]