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Black-backed jackal

Canis mesomelas

Order: Carnivora

Family: Canidae

Datasheet

Sex: male

Age: adult

Skull length: 15.4 cm

Skull width: 8.85 cm

Skull height: 6.5 cm

Skull weight: 90.51 g

Owner: Hungarian Natural History Museum

Inventory number: 60.205.1.

Collecting date: 23 January 1960

Collecting area: Laivevero, Tanzania

Uploaded: 22 June 2017

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