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| Dingo Temporal range: Holocene (3,450 years ago – Recent)
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| A male dingo | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Genus: | Canis |
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| Subspecies: | C. l. dingo
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| Trinomial name | |
| Canis lupus dingo Meyer, 1793
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| Distribution of dingoes and hybrids | |
| Synonyms | |
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Canis dingo Meyer, 1793 | |
The dingo is a wild dog from Australia. They are not found in Tasmania, where the sea levels cut the island off from mainland Australia about 10,000 years ago.[1]
The earliest known dingo remains were found in Western Australia. It dates to 3,450 years ago. However, the genes show that the dingo reached Australia 8,300 years ago. The humans which brought them are unknown. Dingo morphology has not changed over the past 3,500 years: this suggests that artificial selection has not been done over this period.[2]
Their scientific name, Canis lupus (wolf) dingo, was changed recently from Canis familiaris (dog) dingo.[3] This was to show it is related to the white footed wolf which lives in Asia.
- ↑ Jackson, Stephen; Groves, Colin 2015. Taxonomy of Australian mammals. CSIRO Publishing, Clayton, Victoria, Australia. pp. 287–290. ISBN 978-1-4863-0013-6
- ↑ Smith, Bradley P.; Cairns, Kylie M.; Adams, Justin W.; Newsome, Thomas M.; Fillios, Melanie; Déaux, Eloïse C.; Parr, William C.H.; Letnic, Mike; Van Eeden, Lily M.; Appleby, Robert G.; Bradshaw, Corey J. A.; Savolainen, Peter; Ritchie, Euan G.; Nimmo, Dale G.; Archer-Lean, Clare; Greenville, Aaron C; Dickman, Christopher R.; Watson, Lyn; Moseby, Katherine E.; Doherty, Tim H.; Wallach, Adrian D.; Morrant, Damian S.; Crowther, Mathew S. 2019. Taxonomic status of the Australian dingo: the case for Canis dingo Meyer, 1793. Zootaxa 4564 (1): 173–197.
- ↑ "The Dingo". Native Animal Fact Sheets. Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water. Archived from the original on 2009-07-06. Retrieved 2009-11-14.