Talk:Tahitian Dog

Latest comment: 7 years ago by 7&6=thirteen in topic Attribution



Name of the article

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Should the name of this article be ʻūrī or Tahitian Dog or another name instead?--KAVEBEAR (talk) 06:18, 15 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Otaheite Dog and Wolf

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What is this?

Attribution

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Reference copied from Arearea to Tahitian Dog. See former article's edit history for names of contributors. 7&6=thirteen () 12:35, 15 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Text and reference copied from Tahitian Dog to Arearea See former article's edit history for names of contributors. 7&6=thirteen () 12:33, 5 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

Possible areas of expansion

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I feel someone fluent in French (language which most histories of Tahiti are written in now) can find some more modern information about the subject since most of the English sources used here about the breed are fairly old.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 17:15, 15 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

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Binomial classification

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The Tahitian Dog was once considered a separate species and given these binomial classifications:

  • Canis domesticus, indicus taitiensis; Forster (1778, I: 286)
  • Canis familiaris villaticus, meridionalis ; Walther (1817: 23)
  • Canis otahitensis; Reichenbach (1836: 46)
  • Canis familiaris orthotus otahitensis; Reichenbach ("Naturg. Raubth.": 141)
  • Canis pacificus; Smith (1845: 210, 296)
  • Canis familiaris otahitensis; Giebel (1859: 844)