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Vulpes corsac

Description

Vulpes corsac (Linnaeus 1768)

[Canis] corsac Linnaeus 1768, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., Vol. 3: appendix 223.

Type Locality: "in campis magi deserti ab Jaco fluvio verus Irtim"; listed by Honacki et al. (1982) as " U.S. S. R., N. Kazakhstan, steppes between Ural and Irtysh rivers, near Petropavlovsk.".

Vernacular Names: Corsac Fox.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Vulpes corsac subsp. corsac Linnaeus 1768

Subspecies Vulpes corsac subsp. kalmykorum Ognev 1935

Distribution: N Afghanistan, NE China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia.

Conservation: IUCN – Data Deficient.

Discussion: Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, pp. 532-628 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 583, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Canidae
Genus
Vulpes
Species
corsac
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Vulpes corsac (Linnaeus, 1768) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Honacki, J. H., K. E. Kinman and J. W. Koeppl (eds.). 1982. Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference. Allen Press, Inc. and The Association of Systematics Collections, Lawrence, Kansas, 694 pp.
  • Ognev, S. I. 1935. Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran. Khishchnyei i lastonogie (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii) [Mammals of the USSR and adjacent countries: Carnivora and Pinnipedia (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia)]. Glavpushnina NKVT, Moscow, 3: 1 - 752 (in Russian).
  • Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.