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--> ORDER CARNIVORA
--> SUBORDER CANIFORMIA
--> FAMILY Canidae
--> GENUS Vulpes
SPECIES Vulpes chama
| Author: | A. Smith, 1833. | | Citation: | S. Afr. J., 2: 89. | | Common Name: | Cape Fox | | Type Locality: | "Namaqualand and the country on both sides of the Orange river" [Namibia]; fixed by Shortridge (1942) as "Port Nolloth, Little Namaqualand." | | Distribution: | S Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman et al. (1953). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
caama (C. E. H. Smith, 1839)
hodsoni (Noack, 1910)
variegatoides (Layard, 1861)
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