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Iditherium , supposed to be intermediate between Yiverridse and 
Hysenidte ; and Thalassidis , uniting the weasels and hyaenas. 
Family 28. — CANIDiE. (3 Genera, 17 Sub-Genera, 54 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions. 
NE ARCTIC 
Sub-regions. 
PAL.BARCTIC 
SUB-HEGIONS. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
1 . 2.3 - 
1 . 2 . 3 .4 
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 
1 . 2 . 3 — 
1 . 2 . 3. 4 
— 2 ? 
The Canidse, comprising the animals commonly known as 
dogs, wolves, and foxes, have an almost universal range over 
the earth, being only absent from the island sub-regions of 
Madagascar, the Antilles, Austro-Malaya, New Zealand, and the 
Pacific Islands. With the exception of two remarkable forms — ■ 
the hyaena dog ( Lycaon picta), and the great-eared fox ( Megalotis 
Lalandei), both from South Africa — all the species are usually 
placed in the genus Ganis, the distribution of which will be the 
same as that of the family. Dr. J. E. Gray, in his arrangement 
of the family (Proc. Zool. Soc., 1868), subdivides it into fifteen 
genera, the names and general distribution of which are as 
follows : — 
Idicyon (1 species), Brazil ; Gum (4 species), Siberia to 
Java ; Lupus (5 species), North America, Europe, India to 
Ceylon ; Bieba (1 species), North and West Africa ; Simenia 
(1 species), Abyssinia; Glirysocyon (2 specie^), North and South 
America ; Cams (4 species), India, Australia (indigenous ?) 
Lycolopex (2 species), South America; Pseudalopex (5 species), 
South America and Falkland Islands ; Thous (2 species), South 
America to Chili; Vulpes (17 species), all the great continents, 
except South America and Australia ; Fmnecus (4 species), all 
Africa ; Leucocyon (1 species), Arctic regions ; Urocyon (2 species), 
North America ; Nydereutes (1 species), Japan, Amoorland to Can- 
ton (Plate III., vol. i. p. 226). These are all sub-genera according 
to Professor Caras, except Icticyon. The same author makes 
Lycaon a sub-genus, while Dr. Gray makes it a sub-family ! 
Extinct Species.— The dog, wolf, and fox, are found fossil in 
