Raccoon Dog at Fukuyama, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan
日本語: 野生のホンドタヌキ, 仙酔島, 広島県福山市
Date 8 January 2006
Author 663highland https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:663highland
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tanuki02_1050.jpg

The raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides), also known as the mangut or tanuki, is a canid indigenous to East Asia. It is the only extant species in the genus Nyctereutes. It is considered a basal canid species, resembling ancestral forms of the family. Among the Canidae, the raccoon dog shares the habit of regularly climbing trees only with the North American gray fox, another basal species. The raccoon dog is named for its superficial resemblance to the raccoon (Procyon lotor), to which it is not closely related.
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Caniformia
Family: Canidae
Genus: Nyctereutes
Species: Nyctereutes procyonoides (Gray, 1834)
Synonyms:
Canis procyonoides Gray, 1834
Canis viverrinus Temminck, 1838