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Spotted Hyena
Crocuta crocuta Erxleben, 1777

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Carnivora - carnivores »  family Hyaenidae - hyenas

Other names

= Laughing Hyena

IUCN category:Least Concern

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Intertaxon relationships

prey: Phoeniconaias minor (E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1798) - Lesser Flamingo, Kobus kob (Erxleben, 1777) - Kob, Kobus leche (Gray, 1850) - Leche, Kobus vardonii (Livingstone, 1857) - Puku, Aepyceros melampus (Lichtenstein, 1812) - Impala, ...

Subordinated taxa

Number of records: 2

subspecies Crocuta crocuta crocuta Erxleben, 1777
subspecies Crocuta crocuta spelaea Goldfuss, 1823 - Cave Hyena

Links and literature

EN Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [as Crocuta crocuta Erxleben, 1777]
Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3]
Data retrieved on: 2008/12/05
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Crocuta crocuta (Erxleben, 1777)]

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extinct taxon