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Species
Near Threatenedvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Near Threatened
- taxon name
- Atelocynus microtis
- Commons category
- Atelocynus microtis
- taxon common name
- raposa d'oreya curtia
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- Atelocynus microtis
- longest observed lifespan
- 11.9
- short name
- A. microtis
- taxon range
- Alta Floresta
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Encyclopedic overview
The short-eared dog (Atelocynus microtis), also known as the small-eared dog, short-eared fox or small eared zorro is a unique and elusive canid species endemic to the Amazonian basin. This is the only species assigned to the genus Atelocynus.
Other names
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “short-eared dog” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.