Alopex lagopus
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Alopex lagopus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:40.
TYPE LOCALITY: "alpibus Lapponicis, Sibiria, " restricted by Thomas (1911a) to " Sweden (Lapland)."
DISTRIBUTION: Circumpolar, entire tundra zone of the Holarctic, including most of the Arctic islands.
SYNONYMS: arctica Oken, 1816; argenteus Billberg, 1827; beringensis Merriam, 1902; beringianus Cherski, 1920; caerulea Nilsson, 1820; fuliginosus Bechstein, 1799; groenlandicus Bechstein, 1799; hallensis Merriam, 1900; innuitus Merriam, 1902; kenaiensis Brass, 1911; pribilofensis Merriam, 1902; spitzbergenensis Barrett-Hamilton and Bonhote, 1898; typicus Barrett-Hamilton and Bonhote, 1898; ungava Merriam, 1902.
COMMENTS: Viable hybrids have been recorded between Alopex lagopus and Vulpes vulpes (Chiarelli, 1975).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BD1F4E51C329747CFFD6FC3FFFE0142F (URL)
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References
- Thomas, O. 1911 a. The mammals of the tenth edition of Linnaeus; an attempt to fix the types of the genera and the exact bases and localities of the species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1911: 120 - 158.
- Chiarelli, A. B. 1975. The chromosomes of the Canidae. Pp. 40 - 53, in The wild canids: Their systematics, behavioral ecology and evolution (M. W. Fox, ed.). Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, 508 pp.