Vulpes lagopus
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Vulpes lagopus (Linnaeus 1758)
[Canis] lagopus Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 40.
Type Locality: "alpibus Lapponicis, Sibiria," restricted by Thomas (1911 a) to " Sweden (Lapland).".
Vernacular Names: Arctic Fox.
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Subspecies Vulpes lagopus subsp. lagopus Linnaeus 1758
Subspecies Vulpes lagopus subsp. beringensis Merriam 1902
Subspecies Vulpes lagopus subsp. fuliginosus Bechstein 1799
Subspecies Vulpes lagopus subsp. pribilofensis Merriam 1902
Distribution: Circumpolar, entire tundra zone of the Holarctic, including most of the Arctic islands: Canada, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, USA (Alaska).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Alopex lagopus.
Discussion: Viable hybrids have been recorded between V. lagopus and V. vulpes (Chiarelli, 1975). Synonyms allocated according to Audet, et al. (2002).
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- Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.
- 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.