A review of the family Canidae, with a classification by numerical methods

Abstract

(...)"Clutton-Brock et al. (1976) undertook a phenetic study of 35 of the 39 living species by numerical methods. These workers scored 90 characters in their analysis, including morphological features of skull (13 characters), teeth (13), pelage ofhead and body (17), pelage ofextremities (plus other external features, 17), postcranial skeleton and internal anatomy (14), and behavior (16)" (Tedford et al 1995: 24)