Order Carnivora Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1 532 628 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 Lycaon pictus (Temminck 1820) [Hyaena] picta Temminck 1820 , Ann. Gen. Sci. Phys., 3: 54 . Type Locality: "á la côte de Mosambique" [ Mozambique ]. Vernacular Names: African wild dog . Subspecies: : Subspecies Lycaon pictus subsp. pictus Temminck 1820 Subspecies Lycaon pictus subsp. lupinus Thomas 1902 Subspecies Lycaon pictus subsp. manguensis Matschie 1915 Subspecies Lycaon pictus subsp. sharicus Thomas and Wroughton 1907 Subspecies Lycaon pictus subsp. somalicus Thomas 1904 Distribution: Angola , Botswana , Cameroun , Central African Republic , Chad , Côte d’Ivoire (?), Ethiopia , Gambia (?), Guinea , Kenya , Malawi , Mali , Moçambique , Namibia , Sénégal , Somalia , South Africa , Sudan , Tanzania , Uganda , Zambia , Zimbabwe . Recently extinct: Algeria (?), Benin , Burkina Faso (?), Burundi , Dem. Rep. Congo (?), Eritrea , Gabon , Ghana , Niger , Mauritania , Nigeria , Republic of Congo , Rwanda , Sierra Leone , Togo (Fanshawe et al, 1997). Conservation: U. S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Endangered. Discussion: Allocated according to G. M. Allen (1939) and Ellerman et al. (1953). Girman et al. (1993) presented molecular evidence concerning subspecies.