Order Carnivora Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 244 289 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7352980 1ce75501-9bd6-4f4f-b9de-34a393211f7b 0-89327-235-3 7352980 Cams rufus Audubon and Bachman, 1851 . The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, 2: 240 . TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A. , Texas , 15 mi. ( 24 km ) W. Austin . DISTRIBUTION: S. E. and S. C. U.S.A. , from Florida to C. Texas and north to S. Indiana and Missouri . COMMENT: The widely used name niger has been rejected by opinion 447 of the ICZN. The validity of rufus as a species has been questioned by Clutton-Brock et al., 197$ 29(3): 143, due to the existence of natural hybrids with lupus and latrans . Natural hybridization may be a consequence of habitat disruption by man; see Paradiso and Nowak, 1972, U.S. Fish and Wild. Serv., Spec. Sei. Rep. Wildl., 145; Nowak, 1979 , Univ. Kans. Mus. Nat. Hist. Monogr., 6: 1 -154, who provided evidence for specific distinctness. Reviewed by Paradiso and Nowak, 1972, Mamm. Species, 22:1-4. Type locality restricted by Goldman, 1937 , J. Mammal., 18: 38. PROTECTED STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412001003007001.