Hyaena brunnea

Translingual

Hyaena brunnea taking half of a springbok killed by cheetahs

Proper noun

Hyaena brunnea f

A taxonomic species within the family Hyaenidae – brown hyena, a rare, shaggy-haired hyena of southern Africa.

Usage notes

Some taxonomists would place H. brunnea on its own in a genus separate from Hyaena.

Synonyms

(species): Parahyaena brunnea

Hypernyms

(species): Hyaenidae - family; Hyaeninae - subfamily; Hyaena - genus

References

Hyaena brunnea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Hyaena brunnea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Hyaena brunnea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Parahyaena brunnea on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Hyaena brunnea at Encyclopedia of Life
Hyaena brunnea at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Parahyaena_brunnea at Animal Diversity Web
Hyaena brunnea in Mammal Species of the World at Bucknell.

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