Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Eutheria > Order Carnivora

Caniformia

Rank: Suborder
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Canidae
Mustelidae Fischer, 1817
Pinnipedia
Procyonidae
Ursidae Fischer, 1817

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Japanese: イヌ亜目

Literature

basis of record

Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. In Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. 723--743.

Genbank

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Caniformia. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254957

Prof. Dr. Wieslaw Bogdanowicz. Caniformia. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/75daed76-db20-4dd4-a535-1fb70d4741e3

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Importance

no data

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GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254957
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:12633

Last modified

2010-05-20 by Prof. Dr. Wieslaw Bogdanowicz & by Annalisa Berta

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