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Lycalopex

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Lycalopex
Sindry Sooth American tods
Scientific classification e
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Cless: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Faimily: Canidae
Subfaimily: Caninae
Tribe: Canini
Genus: Lycalopex
Burmeister, 1854
Species

Lycalopex is a genus o canids. Its memmers is for common cried Sooth American tods or zorros[1], but thay'r nae closely relatit tae true tods. Thay're mair closely relatit tae woufs an dugs, seein as Sooth American tods, woufs an dugs is aw in the tribe Canini.

Lycalopex comes frae the Ancient Greek fur "wouf-tod".

Species

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Species in this genus include:

Image Scientific name Common name Scowth
Lycalopex culpaeus Culpeo Ecuador an Peru tae the soothren airts o Patagonie an Tierra del Fuego
Lycalopex fulvipes Darwin's tod Nahuelbuta National Pairk (Araucanía Region), the Valdivian Coastal Range (Los Ríos Region) in mainlaund Chile an Chiloé Island
Lycalopex griseus Sooth American gray tod Argenteinie an Chile
Lycalopex gymnocercus Pampas tod northren an central Argenteinie, Uruguay, eastren Bolivie, Paraguay, an soothren Brazil
Lycalopex sechurae Sechuran tod wast-central, northwast Peru, includin the Sechura Desert, an soothwast Ecuador
Lycalopex vetulus Hoary tod sooth-central Brazil
  1. "Zorro" is the Spainish fur "tod".