Overview
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| image = Wolf-like canids.jpg
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| taxon = Canina
| authority = Fischer de Waldheim, 1817
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
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| subdivision = * Canis
†Xenocyon
Cuon
Lupulella
Lycaon †Cynotherium †Eucyon †Aenocyon}}
Canina is a taxonomic rank which represents the wolf-like subtribe of the tribe Canini, and is sister to the subtribe Cerdocyonina. Fossils of this group date to 5 million years ago, however they are likely to have been in existence 9 million years ago. Its members as a group are colloquially known as the wolf-like canids.
Taxonomy
Members of the subtribe Canina are able to produce canid hybrids due to their shared karyotype of 78 chromosomes arranged in 39 pairs.
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