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Also known as canids, dog family, canine family, canid

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Canidae is a family within the kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, and order Carnivora. The taxon was established by authority Fischer in 1817 and is accepted as a valid classification. It is also equivalent to the class Dog in some ontologies. The group includes common names such as hunddjur.

The lineage dates to approximately 40 million years ago. Records indicate 2,742,997 occurrences and 361,684 PubMed entries associated with the family. Specimens are held by institutions including USNM, CM, and UTEP, primarily in the United States. The family is referenced by 1,658 other encyclopedia articles.

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Species

hunddjur

Canidae

FAMILY

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassMammalia
OrderCarnivora
FamilyCanidae

Habitatmarine

Observations recorded2,742,997

犬科动物包括狗、狼、豺、狐狸等。犬科动物是地球上较为成功的一种肉食哺乳动物。犬科家族包括大约三十七种现存的狼、胡狼、狐和其他野生动物及家犬。它们全部都是肉食性动物，身体构造已演化成特别适合狩猎生活的形态。犬科动物通常春秋兩季會發情，所以說，原則上一年可交配兩次，若有懷孕成功，則一年交配一次。體型越大者，一次所懷的胎數較多，正常排卵者一次可產下6隻以上，小型者在3~4隻以下。

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Museum specimens

Specimen records: 3,941
With media: 72
Family: Canidae
Collections: USNM, CM, UTEP
Recorded in: United States

Research

361,684 papers

Main mites associated with dermatopathies present in dogs and other members of the Canidae family.ReviewOpen veterinary journal · 2023Thomson P, Carreño N, Núñez ADOI: 10.5455/OVJ.2023.v13.i2.1
Fleas as parasites of the family Canidae.ReviewParasites & vectors · 2011Dobler G, Pfeffer MDOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-139
Identification of The Canidae Iron Regulatory Hormone Hepcidin.Scientific reports · 2019Mead MK, Claus M, Litton E et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-55009-w
Molecular Epidemiology of Rabies in Wild Canidae in Tunisia.Viruses · 2021Bouslama Z, Kharmachi H, Basdouri N et al.DOI: 10.3390/v13122473
Etruscan Wolf Canis etruscus (Canidae, Carnivora) from the Early Pleistocene of Crimea (Taurida Cave).Doklady biological sciences : proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Biological sciences sections · 2024Lavrov AV, Sotnikova MV, Gimranov DO et al.DOI: 10.1134/S0012496624701308
Saltations of cis-regulatory modules in Canidae and Hominidae.Scientific reports · 2025Shi J, Wang L, Li LMDOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-13034-y
Chromosome-level assembly of the gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) confirms the basal loss of PRDM9 in Canidae.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Armstrong EE, Bissell KL, Fatima HS et al.DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkae034
The nature of coxofemoral joint pathology across family Canidae.Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) · 2022Lawler D, Tangredi B, Becker J et al.DOI: 10.1002/ar.24846

Wikidata facts

Instance of: taxon
Subclass of: Carnivora
Image: Familia Canidae.jpg

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taxon common name: hundefamilien
taxon rank: family
Commons category: Canidae
taxon name: Canidae
topic's main category: Category:Canines
equivalent class: dbpedia.org/ontology/Dog
Commons gallery: Canidae
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
means of locomotion: quadrupedalism
habitat: landmass
topic has template: Template:Canidae nav
start time: 39750000-0
taxonomic type: Canis
nomenclatural type of: Carnivora

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