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Side-striped jackal

A medium-sized canine native to Central and Southern Africa.

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It is a slender, medium-sized canid with a buff-grey pelt and indistinct white stripes on its flanks.[1][2] Central and Southern Africa are the native regions of the canine known as the side-striped jackal (Lupulella adusta).[3] A side-striped jackal's weight typically falls between 6.5 and 14 kg, while its body length from head to body measures 69 to 81 cm.[1]

Scientific classification

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. InfraclassPlacentalia
  4. OrderCarnivora
  5. FamilyCanidae
  6. GenusLupulella
  7. SpeciesLupulella adusta

Named by (Sundevall, 1847)

Close relatives

Other species of Lupulella with a Codexery entry.

Sources: Wikipedia taxobox: Side-striped jackal (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Conservation status

Least Concern (LC)

  1. LC▲ this species
  2. NT
  3. VU
  4. EN
  5. CR
  6. EW
  7. EX
Population trend
Not held in our sources — see the assessment
Assessment published
2014

Source: IUCN Red List assessment

How big is it?

Size comparison: Side-striped jackal and a personA 0.81 m long side-striped jackal drawn to scale next to a 1.8 m tall person. Schematic shapes, not a likeness.0.81 m1.8 m

Largest length in the source, 0.81 m, next to a 1.8 m person.

Diagram: drawn by Codexery, schematic shapes to scale (not a likeness). Length: Wikipedia: Side-striped jackal

Key facts and history

A 2019 IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group workshop recommended placing it in the genus Lupulella based on DNA evidence.[4] Its pelt is coloured buff-grey, with a darker grey back and a black tail with a grey tip.[1][2] It lives solitarily or in family groups of up to seven individuals.[5] In 1847, the species Canis adustus was named by Swedish zoologist Carl Jakob Sundevall.[6]

Max Hilzheimer, a German zoologist, suggested in 1906 that the animal be placed in a different genus, calling it Schaeffia adusta.[6] The Pliocene epoch is when fossil evidence for the side-striped jackal has been found.[7] Compared to the black-backed jackal, the side-striped jackal occupies a significantly larger geographic range.[2] When comparing skulls, the side-striped jackal's is flatter and possesses a rostrum that is both longer and narrower than that of the black-backed jackal.[2]

An omnivorous diet is well supported by the dental structure of this animal.[2] Among jackal species, the side-striped jackal generally consumes less meat.[8]

What the cited sources add

The Botswana Travel Guide notes the side-striped jackal is common nowhere in Botswana despite its prevalence elsewhere.[9] The same guide states these jackals are usually seen singly or in pairs, at dusk or dawn.[9] The Kruger Park guide gives a shoulder height of 400-500 mm and mass of 7-12 kg.[10] In South Africa, its distribution stretches from Northern KwaZulu-Natal to Mpumalanga, the Northern Province and Swaziland.[10]

An intestinal parasite, the acanthocephalan worm Pachysentis angolensis, was discovered in a side-striped jackal specimen from Angola.[11]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Side-striped jackal" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife", 2005; "Side-Striped Jackal", Botswana Travel Guide (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Side-striped jackal" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: IUCN SSC Canid Specialist Group, "Side-Striped Jackal", Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Side-striped jackal" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Alvares, "Old World Canis spp. with taxonomic ambiguity: Workshop conclusions and recommendations. CIBIO. Vairão, Portugal, 28th - 30th May 2019", IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group, 2019; Castelló, "Canids of the World: Wolves, Wild Dogs, Foxes, Jackals, Coyotes, and Their Relatives (Princeton Field Guides)", Princeton University Press, 2018, p. 160–165; Perri, "Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage", Nature, 2021, p. 87–91; "Lupulella adusta (Sundevall, 1847)"; Hilzheimer, "Die geographische Verbreitung der en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Side-striped jackal" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Alvares, "Old World Canis spp. with taxonomic ambiguity: Workshop conclusions and recommendations. CIBIO. Vairão, Portugal, 28th - 30th May 2019", IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group, 2019 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Side-striped jackal" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Canis adustus Carl J Sundevall, 1847", The South African Biodiversity Institute Redlist, January 2016 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Side-striped jackal" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Sundevall, 1847. "Nya Mammalia från Sydafrika" Ofv. K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. Stockholm 1846, 3: 121 [1847]; Hilzheimer, "Die geographische Verbreitung der Afrikanischen Grauschakale", Zoologischer Beobachter, 1906, p. 363–364 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Side-striped jackal" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Garrido, "Canis accitanus nov. sp., a new small dog (Canidae, Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Fonelas P-1 Plio-Pleistocene site (Guadix basin, Granada, Spain)", Geobios, 2008, p. 751; Lindblad-Toh, "Genome sequence, comparative analysis and haplotype structure of the domestic dog", Nature, 2005, p. 803–819; Juliane Kaminski, "The Social Dog:Behavior and Cognition", Elsevier, 2014, p. 4 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Side-striped jackal" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Side-Striped Jackal in the Kruger Park", www.krugerpark.co.za (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  9. "Side-Striped Jackal", Botswana Travel Guide. facts only, no text reused. botswana-travel-guide.com
  10. "Side-Striped Jackal in the Kruger Park", www.krugerpark.co.za. facts only, no text reused. krugerpark.co.za
  11. Wikipedia, "Side-striped jackal" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Golvan, "Acanthocephales de l'Angola. I. Oncicola angolensis n. sp.(Archiacanthocephala-Pachysentidae), parasite du Chacal, Canis adustus Sundevall", Publicacion Servicos Culturais de la Companhia de Diamantes de Angola. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Side-striped jackal (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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1. In what year was the side-striped jackal first scientifically described?

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2. To which genus does the side-striped jackal belong?

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3. What is the scientific name of the side-striped jackal?

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