A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Canidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Eurasian Golden JackalCanis aureus Linnaeus, 1758 | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gray WolfCanis lupus Linnaeus, 1758 | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ethiopian WolfCanis simensis Rüppell, 1840 | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Maned WolfChrysocyon brachyurus (Illiger, 1815) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Asiatic Wild DogCuon alpinus (Pallas, 1811) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Falkland Island wolfDusicyon australis (Kerr, 1792) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Argentinian WarrahDusicyon avus (Burmeister, 1866) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| CulpeoLycalopex culpaeus (Molina, 1782) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Darwin's FoxLycalopex fulvipes (Martin, 1837) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| South American Gray FoxLycalopex griseus (Gray, 1837) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sechuran FoxLycalopex sechurae (Thomas, 1900) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hoary FoxLycalopex vetulus (Lund, 1842) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| African Wild DogLycaon pictus (Temminck, 1820) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Asiatic RaccoonNyctereutes procyonoides (Gray, 1834) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Japanese Raccoon DogNyctereutes viverrinus (Temminck, 1839) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bat-eared FoxOtocyon megalotis (Desmarest, 1822) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bush DogSpeothos venaticus (Lund, 1842) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common Gray FoxUrocyon cinereoargenteus (Schreber, 1775) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Channel Islands Gray FoxUrocyon littoralis (Baird, 1858) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bengal FoxVulpes bengalensis (Shaw, 1800) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Blanford's FoxVulpes cana Blanford, 1877 | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cape FoxVulpes chama (A. Smith, 1833) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Corsac FoxVulpes corsac (Linnaeus, 1768) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tibetan FoxVulpes ferrilata Hodgson, 1842 | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desert FoxVulpes macrotis Merriam, 1888 | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pale FoxVulpes pallida (Cretzschmar, 1826) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Rüppell's FoxVulpes rueppellii (Schinz, 1825) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Swift FoxVulpes velox (Say, 1823) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cross FoxVulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| FennecVulpes zerda (Zimmermann, 1780) | CanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.