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Taxon: Subfamily Hyaeninae Gray, 1821 (mammal)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Carnivora - (Family) Hyaenidae

Original position

Questionably Hyaenidae (Family) Gray, 1821

Original entries

Questionably †*Adcrocuta* (Genus) Kretzoi, 1938
Questionably †*Chasmaporthetes* (Genus) Hay, 1921
Questionably †*Ikelohyaena* (Genus) Werdelin & Solounias, 1991
Questionably †*Leecyaena* (Genus) Young & Liu, 1948
Questionably †*Pachycrocuta* (Genus) Kretzoi, 1938
Questionably †*Palinhyaena* (Genus) Qiu, Huang & Guo, 1979

Subsequent entries

*Crocuta* (Genus) Kaup, 1828
*Hyaena* (Genus) Brisson, 1762
†*Hyaenictis* (Genus) Gaudry, 1861

Current position

Hyaenidae (Family) Gray, 1821

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 241.

Historical positions

*Hyaenidae* (Family) Gray, 1821	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 241.
*Hyaenidae* (Family) Gray, 1821	Ref: W.C. Wozencraft, 1993: 308.
*Hyaenidae* (Family) Gray, 1821	Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1044; 1043.

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	2g;3s;1ss; †7g;6s;3ss
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 30 Nov 2014	[2g;3s;1ss; †7g]
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[3g; †6g]
1993	W.C. Wozencraft	[3g;3s]
1982	A.F. DeBlase	[2g;3s]

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