著者

今泉 吉典

出版者

THE MAMMAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

雑誌

哺乳動物学雑誌: The Journal of the Mammalogical Society of Japan (ISSN:05460670)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.5, no.2, pp.62-66, 1970

被引用文献数

1

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Similarity relationships of <I>Canis hodophilax</I> TEMMINCK, 1839, among 20 species and subspecies of the genus <I>Canis</I> were investigated based on appearance ratios of 30 cranial characters (Table 1) . The result was that <I>hodophilax</I> may not be a subspecies of <I>lupus</I> against to opinions of the most of modern authors but a distinct species well differentiated from any other forms of the genus (Fig. 1) . Emarginated anterior border of mesopterygoid fossa, great distance between jugal and glenoid fossa, distinctly internal lachrymal formen and frequently divided anterior opening of alisphenoid canal are characters rather common to this species but rarely found in the other forms of the genus.