Tien Shan dhole
| Tian Shan dhole | |
|---|---|
| Photographed by William Percival Westell (1910) | |
Extinct (1946) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Genus: | Cuon |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | †C. a. hesperius |
| Trinomial name | |
| †Cuon alpinus hesperius Afanasjev and Zolotarev, 1935 | |
| Synonyms | |
|
Cuon alpinus jason (Pocock, 1936) | |
The Tian Shan dhole (Cuon alpinus hesperius), also known as the Siberian dhole, Western Asiatic dhole, or northern dhole is an extinct subspecies of dhole native to the Altai and Tian Shan mountain ranges, and possibly Pamir. Only 15 records of captured and killed specimens are known, and it most likely went extinct since 1946.