Temporal range: Late Eocene-Holocene[1]: 7 ~37.8–0 Ma
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10 of the 13 extant canid genera
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Carnivora
Infraorder:
Cynoidea
Family:
Canidae Fischer de Waldheim, 1817[2]
Type genus
Canis
Linnaeus, 1758
Subfamilies and extant genera
†Prohesperocyon
†Hesperocyoninae
†Borophaginae
Caninae
Canidae (/ˈkænɪdiː/;[3] from Latin, canis, "dog") is a biological family of dog-like carnivorans, colloquially referred to as dogs, and constitutes a clade. A member of this family is also called a canid (/ˈkeɪnɪd/).[4] The family includes three subfamilies: the Caninae, the extinct Borophaginae and Hesperocyoninae.[5] The Caninae are known as canines,[6] and include domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, foxes, jackals and other species.
Canids are found on all continents except Antarctica, having arrived independently or accompanied by human beings over extended periods of time. Canids vary in size from the 2-metre-long (6.6 ft)[citation needed] gray wolf to the 24-centimetre-long (9.4 in)[citation needed] fennec fox. The body forms of canids are similar, typically having long muzzles, upright ears, teeth adapted for cracking bones and slicing flesh, long legs, and bushy tails. They are mostly social animals, living together in family units or small groups and behaving co-operatively. Typically, only the dominant pair in a group breeds and a litter of young are reared annually in an underground den. Canids communicate by scent signals and vocalizations. One canid, the domestic dog, originated from a symbiotic relationship with Upper Paleolithic humans and today remains one of the most widely kept domestic animals.
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^Fischer de Waldheim, G. 1817. Adversaria zoological. Memoir Societe Naturelle (Moscow) 5:368–428. p372
^Canidae. Dictionary.com. The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Houghton Mifflin Company. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Canidae (accessed: 16 February 2009).
^Wang & Tedford 2008, pp. 181.
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competition with felids and borophagines. Fluctuation of species within Canidae over 40 million years Phylogeny of Hesperocyoninae related to Borophaginae...
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