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Side Striped Jackal: The side-striped jackal (Canis adustus) is a species of jackal, native to eastern and southern Africa. Unlike its cousin, the smaller black-backed jackal, which dwells in open plains, the side-striped jackal primarily dwells in woodland and scrub areas.
- - - Curiously, this animal is put in the Canis Genus, which from the above diagram, is illogical.
Black Backed Jackal: The black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas) is a canid native to two areas of Africa, separated by roughly 900 km.
- - - Curiously, this animal is put in the Canis Genus, which from the above diagram, is illogical.
This would suggest that there is an error in the positioning of the four bottom canids in the above diagram.
The painted wolf, and the dhole should be on the bottom fork of the first split in Caninae, while the two jackals on that lower split should be on the bottom of the upper split. The dates on the splits seem to support that conjecture.
So the upper split is CANIS, and the lower split is LYCAON, and CUON.
So Jackals, ‘Wolves’, Coyotes, and Dogs, are ALL in the CANIS, or DOG branch, while the Dhole, and Painted Wolf are in the LYCAON or CUON, or WOLF branch.
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There seems to be an error in the bottom four groups in the tree shown in the article:
Side Striped Jackal: The side-striped jackal (Canis adustus) is a species of jackal, native to eastern and southern Africa. Unlike its cousin, the smaller black-backed jackal, which dwells in open plains, the side-striped jackal primarily dwells in woodland and scrub areas.
- - - Curiously, this animal is put in the Canis Genus, which from the above diagram, is illogical.
Black Backed Jackal: The black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas) is a canid native to two areas of Africa, separated by roughly 900 km.
- - - Curiously, this animal is put in the Canis Genus, which from the above diagram, is illogical.
This would suggest that there is an error in the positioning of the four bottom canids in the above diagram.
The painted wolf, and the dhole should be on the bottom fork of the first split in Caninae, while the two jackals on that lower split should be on the bottom of the upper split. The dates on the splits seem to support that conjecture.
So the upper split is CANIS, and the lower split is LYCAON, and CUON.
So Jackals, ‘Wolves’, Coyotes, and Dogs, are ALL in the CANIS, or DOG branch, while the Dhole, and Painted Wolf are in the LYCAON or CUON, or WOLF branch.
Dave at 168 15:27, 18 October 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daveat168 ( talk • contribs)
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