Andean wolf
The Andean wolf is a purported South American canine that is falsely labelled a wolf. Various tests on the singular pelt have failed to provide a conclusive identity.
History
In 1927, Lorenz Hagenbeck bought one of three pelts from a dealer in Buenos Aires who claimed that they had come from a wild dog of the Andes. The pelt ended up in Munich where the German mammalogist Ingo Krumbiegel examined it in 1940. Krumbiegel published two papers describing the animal and giving it the scientific name of Dasycyon hagenbecki. The American zoologist Howard J. Stains supported Krumbeigel's new genus Dasycyon. Other mammalogists believed that the skin was that of a domestic dog.In 1954 Fritz Dieterlen published results comparing samples of hair taken from the Munich pelt with hair from various canids. He found that there were significant similarities between the Munich pelt hair and German Shepherd hair.