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The family Canidae occurs widely throughout the world, and has been successful in colonizing most of the land area of the earth. Its species occupy remarkably diverse ecological niches (Mech 1975). Through the dingo, Canis lupus dingo, the family has also colonized Australia. According to Wozencraft (1993), the specific epithets familiaris and lupus are synonymous. However, although Canis lupus and Canis familiaris were described simultaneously by Linnaeus in 1758, and familiaris has page preference over lupus, Canis lupus has become universally accepted for the species which includes the wolf, dingo and domestic dog.
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Bothma, J.d.P. (1998). Family Canidae. In: Carnivore Ecology in Arid Lands. Adaptations of Desert Organisms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03587-0_2
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