Dusicyon
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Dusicyon is an extinct genus of South American canids.
== Taxonomy == The type species is Dusicyon australis, the Falkland Islands wolf. In 1914, Oldfield Thomas established this genus, in which he included the culpeo and other South American foxes. These other canids were removed to Lycalopex by Langguth in 1975.
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