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  • Also present are Japanese hare Lepus brachyurus angustidens, Japanese squirrel Sciurus lis, small Japanese flying squirrel Pteromys momonga, Japanese giant flying squirrel Petaurista leucogenys, Japanese dormouse Glirulus japonicus (EN), raccoon dog Nyctereutes procyonoides, Japanese fox Vulpes vulpes japonica, Japanese marten Martes melampus, ermine Mustela ermina, Siberian weasel Mustela sibirica and Eurasian badger Mele meles.

    Shirakami-sanchi (Shirakami mountains), Japan 2009

  • Jackals Canis aureus, muskrats Ondatia zibethica, and racoon dogs Nyctereutes procyonoides have invaded the area, preying on the birds when they can, and wild boar Sus scrofa, roe deer Capreolus capreolus, red deer Cervus elaphus and hares Lepis sp. are still hunted nearby.

    Srebarna Nature Reserve, Bulgaria 2009

  • The evening that he learned of Lady Ogumata's flight, he repaired to the outskirts of town, where, between a solitary pine grove and an old stone wall, he went through the now ten-minute process of turning back into a Nyctereutes procyonoides.

    Villa Incognito Robbins, Tom 2003

  • Any zoologist will gladly point out that tanukis are a species of East Asian wild dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides), possessing the long snout, coloration, and markings of a raccoon, although lacking the raccoon's famous ringed tail.

    Villa Incognito Robbins, Tom 2003

  • As a species, Nyctereutes procyonoides may or may not have originated in what is now Japan.

    Villa Incognito Robbins, Tom 2003

  • All the animals that we shall have to deal with might and would be by some authors brought into this one genus, the only others recognised by them being the two African genera, _Megalotis_ and _Lycaon_, the long-eared fox and the hyaena-dog, and the _Nyctereutes_ or racoon-dog of Northern China and Amoorland.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • Raccoon dog Nyctereutes procyonoides, Sechuran fox

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • In the forests one can find moose (Alces alces), Siberian roe deer (Capreolus pygargus), lynx (Lynx lynx), common hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus), widely spread varying hare (Lepus timidus), badger (Meles meles), ermine (Mustela erminea), weasel (Mustela nivalis), common marten (Martes martes) racoon-like dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides).

    Kazakh upland 2008

  • No, you’re thinking of the breed “Coonhound”: I’m referring to the wild dog species Nyctereutes procyonoides, which resembles a squat, super-fluffy fox with a raccoon-like head.

    Zantedeschia elliottiana - The Panda's Thumb 2010

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