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Last full accuracy audit: 2026-08-31 · 8 entries checked · 4 flagged · 8 issues confirmed · 4 corrected · 4 still open
Coywolf — The entry presents eastern wolf (Canis lycaon) as a distinct species without qualification, but established canon often treats it as a subspecies of gray wolf or a hybrid complex, making this a factual error.
Coywolf — The entry claims a 2016 genomic analysis by vonHoldt et al. found the northeastern coywolf is approximately 64% western coyote, 26% eastern wolf, and 10% domestic dog, but these specific percentages are not from that study; they are misattributed or from a dif
Crab-eating fox — The claim that the tribe Cerdocyonina appeared around 6.0 million years ago in North America as Ferrucyon avius is incorrect because Cerdocyonina is a South American radiation and Ferrucyon avius is not universally recognized as the earliest member with that t
Crab-eating fox — The statement that mitochondrial studies have not supported a close relationship between the crab-eating fox and the short-eared dog is factually incorrect; mitochondrial studies have actually supported this relationship.
Ethiopian wolf — The claim that the Ethiopian wolf was downlisted to endangered in 2004 is incorrect; it was downlisted to vulnerable in 2004, not endangered.
Ethiopian wolf — The claim that the earliest known fossil is a right mandible half dated to between 1.6 and 1.4 million years ago from the Melka Wakena site is not definitively established as canon and is repeated without noting its tentative nature.
Falkland Islands wolf — The first recorded sighting of a Falkland Islands wolf was by John Strong in 1690, but the anecdote about a wolf jumping overboard after cannon fire is associated with a later voyage, not Strong's.
Falkland Islands wolf — The species was extinct on East Falkland by the 1850s, not specifically 1865; the last confirmed sighting on East Falkland was around 1850.
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