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GENUS Vulpes

Author:Frisch, 1775.
Citation:Das Natur-System der Vierfüssigen Thiere: 15.
Type Species:Canis vulpes Linnaeus, 1758, by designation under the plenary powers (Melville and Smith, 1978).
Comments:Although Frisch (1775) has been ruled a rejected work for nomenclatural purposes, Vulpes has been retained (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1979). Considered a subgenus of Canis by Van Gelder (1978); however, this arrangement is not currently employed by most mammalogists (Corbet, 1978; Corbet and Hill, 1980; Gromov and Baranova, 1981; Hall, 1981; Wozencraft, 1989). McKenna and Bell (1997) included Fennecus and Alopex as congeneric taxa (followed here). Bobrinskii et al. (1965), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999) placed Alopex as a subgenus of Vulpes; Van Gelder (1978) considered it a subgenus of Canis. Wayne et al. (1987), Wayne and O’Brien (1987), and Mercure et al. (1993) argued for the inclusion of Alopex with other Vulpes. Synonyms allocated after McKenna and Bell (1997).
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Offspring:

SPECIES bengalensis

SPECIES cana

SPECIES chama

SPECIES corsac

SUBSPECIES corsac

SUBSPECIES kalmykorum

SPECIES ferrilata

SPECIES lagopus

SUBSPECIES lagopus

SUBSPECIES beringensis

SUBSPECIES fuliginosus

SUBSPECIES pribilofensis

SPECIES macrotis

SPECIES pallida

SUBSPECIES pallida

SUBSPECIES cyrenaica

SUBSPECIES edwardsi

SUBSPECIES harterti

SUBSPECIES oertzeni

SPECIES rueppellii

SUBSPECIES rueppellii

SUBSPECIES caesia

SUBSPECIES cyrenaica

SUBSPECIES sabaea

SUBSPECIES zarudnyi

SPECIES velox

SPECIES vulpes

SUBSPECIES vulpes

SUBSPECIES abietorum

SUBSPECIES alascensis

SUBSPECIES alpherakyi

SUBSPECIES anatolica

SUBSPECIES arabica

SUBSPECIES atlantica

SUBSPECIES bangsi

SUBSPECIES barbara

SUBSPECIES beringiana

SUBSPECIES cascadensis

SUBSPECIES caucasica

SUBSPECIES crucigera

SUBSPECIES daurica

SUBSPECIES deletrix

SUBSPECIES dolichocrania

SUBSPECIES dorsalis

SUBSPECIES flavescens

SUBSPECIES fulvus

SUBSPECIES griffithi

SUBSPECIES harrimani

SUBSPECIES hoole

SUBSPECIES ichnusae

SUBSPECIES indutus

SUBSPECIES jakutensis

SUBSPECIES japonica

SUBSPECIES karagan

SUBSPECIES kenaiensis

SUBSPECIES kurdistanica

SUBSPECIES macroura

SUBSPECIES montana

SUBSPECIES necator

SUBSPECIES niloticus

SUBSPECIES ochroxantha

SUBSPECIES palaestina

SUBSPECIES peculiosa

SUBSPECIES pusilla

SUBSPECIES regalis

SUBSPECIES rubricosa

SUBSPECIES schrenckii

SUBSPECIES silacea

SUBSPECIES splendidissima

SUBSPECIES stepensis

SUBSPECIES tobolica

SUBSPECIES tschiliensis

SPECIES zerda

Synonyms:

    Alopex Kaup, 1829
    Cynalopex C. E. H. Smith, 1839
    Fennecus Desmarest, 1804
    Leucocyon Gray, 1869
    Mamvulpesus Herrera, 1899
    Megalotis Illiger, 1811
    Vulpis Gray, 1821

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