Hyaena brunnea

Translingual

Hyaena brunnea taking half of a springbok killed by cheetahs

Proper noun

Hyaena brunnea f

1. 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 at 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^[1] at Bucknell.