The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated mixture of the wolf.
Canis is the Latin word meaning "dog", and under this genus, he listed the domestic dog, the wolf, and the golden jackal.
In 1758ish, the Swedish botanist and zoologist Carl Linnaeus published in his Systema Naturae, the two-word naming of species (binomial nomenclature).
