 The skin of the mountain dog was subsequently shipped to the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in the Netherlands and mounted.The specimen, along with Siebold's notes, were used by Temminck as references for his scientific classification of the animal in "Fauna Japonica" (1839).Temminck, however, misinterpreted Siebold's notes distinguishing the wolf and the mountain dog and treated the two as synonyms.