Belongs within: Aeluroidea.
The Hyaenidae, hyaenas, are cursorial carnivores known from Africa and Eurasia, with fossil representatives in North America. Hyaenas have relatively short bodies with conspicuously down-sloping backs, and are conspicuously marked with stripes or spots.
<==Hyaenidae |--CrocutaFS15 | |--C. brevirostrisWC56 | |--C. crocutaRB84 | | |--C. c. crocutaRB84 | | `--C. c. spelaeaRB84 | |--C. eximiaK54 | |--C. honanensisDW04 | `--C. variabilisK54 `--+--Proteles cristatus (Sparrman 1783)FS15, V10 `--HyaenaFS15 |--H. abroniaS78 |--H. bellaxS78 |--H. brunneaS78 |--H. crocutaG41 |--H. hyaena (Linnaeus 1758)DC02 | |--H. h. hyaenaUSDI77 | `--H. h. barbaraUSDI77 |--H. makapani Toerien 1952WC56 |--H. priscusME05 |--H. spelaeaF82 |--H. striataK54 |--H. ultimaJ63 `--H. vulgarisG41 Hyaenidae incertae sedis: Parahyaena brunneaYC04 Hyaenictis preforfexS78 Leecyaena forfex [=Hyaenictis forfex]S78 ProgenettaS78 Miohyaena certaK54 ChasmaporthetesYC04 |--C. ossifragusV91 `--C. progressusDW04 EuryboasS78 |--E. namaquensis [=Hyaena namaquensis, Lycyaena namaquensis]S78 `--E. silberbergi [=Lycyaena silberbergi]S78 PachycrocutaME05 |--P. brevirrostrisWT08 |--P. licentiDW04 |--P. robustaJ63 `--P. sinensisDW04 Percrocuta Schlosser 1903S78, D07 |--P. algeriensis [=Hyaena algeriensis]S78 |--P. australis Hendey 1974S78 |--P. giganteaD07 |--P. hebiensisD07 |--P. miocenicaD07 |--P. tobieni Crusafont & Aguirre 1971S78 `--P. tungurensisD07 Ictitherium Wagner 1848 (see below for synonymy)K54 | i. s.: I. arkesilaiD07 | I. ebuWT08 | I. ibericumD07 | I. intuberculatumD07 | I. kurteniD07 | I. orbignyiK54 | I. pannonicumD07 |--+--I. hipparionum [=Hyaena hipparionum]K54 | `--I. wongiiK54 [=Hyaenictitherium wongiiDW04] `--+--I. robustum (Nordmann ex Gervais 1858) (see below for synonymy)K54 | |--I. r. robustumK54 | `--I. r. tauricumK54 `--+--I. gaudryiK54 `--+--I. hyaenoidesK54 [=Hyaenictitherium hyaenoidesDW04] |--I. indicumK54 `--I. sivalenseK54 Herpestides de Beaumont 1967SM93 ProtictitheriumWT08 TungurictisWT08 PlioviverropsWT08 Adcrocuta variabilisWT08, DW04 Inorganic: Proteles cristatus minilorientalus Okamura 1987O87
Ictitherium Wagner 1848 [incl. Galeotherium Wagner 1840 non Jäger 1839, Hyaenictitherium Kretzoi 1937, Lepthyaena Lydekker 1884, Palhyaena Gervais 1859, Sinictitherium Kretzoi 1937, Thalassictis Nordmann ex Gervais 1850]K54
Ictitherium robustum (Nordmann ex Gervais 1858) [=Thalassictis robusta; incl. T. gracilis Hensel 1862, Ictitherium viverrinum Roth & Wagner 1854]K54
*Type species of generic name indicated
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