West African wild dog

Short description: Subspecies of carnivore

West African wild dog

West African wild dog

Conservation status

Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Mammalia
Order:  | Carnivora
Family:  | Canidae
Genus:  | Lycaon
Species:  |

L. pictus

Subspecies:  |

L. p. manguensis

Trinomial name
Lycaon pictus manguensis

Matschie, 1915

Synonyms

Lycaon pictus mischlichi (Matschie, 1915)

The West African wild dog (Lycaon pictus manguensis) is a subspecies of the African wild dog native to West Africa.[2] It is classified as Critically Endangered by IUCN,[3] as it was estimated that 70 adult individuals are left in the wild.

The West African wild dog used to be widespread from western to central Africa, from Senegal to Nigeria. Now only two subpopulations survive: one in the Niokolo-Koba National Park of Senegal and the other in the W National Park of Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger.[1][4]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Woodroffe, R.; Sillero-Zubiri, C. (2012). "Lycaon pictus (West Africa subpopulation)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012. https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/16991108/0. Retrieved 10 January 2016. old-form url
2. ↑ "West African wild dog" (in en). https://www.zsl.org/west-african-wild-dog.
3. ↑ "The African wild dog : status survey and conservation action plan" (in en). 2016-02-01. https://www.iucn.org/content/african-wild-dog-status-survey-and-conservation-action-plan.
4. ↑ Victor Montoro (14 July 2015). "Lions, cheetahs, and wild dogs dwindle in West and Central African protected areas". Mongabay. http://news.mongabay.com/2015/07/lions-cheetahs-and-wild-dogs-dwindle-in-west-and-central-african-protected-areas/.

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