Category:Lycaon

Genus meaning and origin: "wolf-like"; Greek

Family: Canidae

Tribe: Canini

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Home to a single living extant species, known as ''Lycaon pictus. Formerly, this genus hadn't existed, due to pictus instead being classified as Hyaena picta. Then, pictus was reclassified as Lycaon tricolor, ''before being given its official name.

There is only one known extinct member of the species, called ''Lycaon sekowei. ''