Vulpes vulpes
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Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus 1758)
[Canis] vulpes Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 40.
Type Locality: "Europa, Asia, Africa, antrafodiens," restricted by Thomas (1911 a) to " Sweden (Upsala).".
Vernacular Names: Red Fox.
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Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. vulpes Linnaeus 1758
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. abietorum Merriam 1900
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. alascensis Merriam 1900
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. alpherakyi Satunin 1906
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. anatolica Thomas 1920
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. arabica Thomas 1902
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. atlantica Wagner 1841
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. bangsi Merriam 1900
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. barbara Shaw 1800
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. beringiana Middendorff 1875
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. cascadensis Merriam 1900
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. caucasica Dinnik 1914
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. crucigera Bechstein 1789
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. daurica Ognev 1931
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. deletrix Bangs 1898
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. dolichocrania Ognev 1926
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. dorsalis J. E. Gray 1838
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. flavescens J. E. Gray 1843
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. fulvus Desmarest 1820
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. griffithi Blyth 1854
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. harrimani Merriam 1900
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. hoole Swinhoe 1870
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. ichnusae Miller 1907
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. indutus Miller 1907
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. jakutensis Ognev 1923
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. japonica J. E. Gray 1868
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. karagan Erxleben 1777
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. kenaiensis Merriam 1900
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. kurdistanica Satunin 1906
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. macroura Baird 1852
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. montana Pearson 1836
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. necator Merriam 1900
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. niloticus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1803
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. ochroxantha Ognev 1926
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. palaestina Thomas 1920
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. peculiosa Kishida 1924
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. pusilla Blyth 1854
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. regalis Merriam 1900
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. rubricosa Bangs 1898
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. schrenckii Kishida 1924
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. silacea Miller 1907
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. splendidissima Kishida 1924
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. stepensis Brauner 1914
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. tobolica Ognev 1926
Subspecies Vulpes vulpes subsp. tschiliensis Matschie 1907
Distribution: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Geogria, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, North and South Korea, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, USA (Alaska, throughout most of the contiguous 48 states except central plains and SW deserts), Uzbekistan, Vietnam. Introduced to Australia (Corbet and Hill, 1980).
Conservation: CITES – Appendix III (India) as V. vulpes griffithi, V. v. montana and V. v. pusilla; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Reviewed by Larivière and Pasitschniak (1996). Synonyms allocated according to Larivière and Pasitschniak (1996).
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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.
- Shaw, G. 1800. General zoology or systematic natural history. G. Kearsley, London, 12: 1 - 330.
- Ognev, S. I. 1931. Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii: Khishchnye mlekopitayushchie [Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia: Carnivorous mammals]. Glavnauka, Moscow, 2: 1 - 776 (in Russian).
- Gray, J. E. 1843. List of the specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 216 pp.
- Desmarest, A. G. 1820, 1822. Mammalogie ou description des espece de mammiferes. Encyclopedie Methodique. Agasse, Paris, 555 pp., 66 plates.
- Erxleben, J. C. P. 1777. Systema regni animalis per classes, ordines, genera, species, varietates, cum synonymia et historia animalium. Classis I. Mammalia. Weygandianis, Lipsiae, 636 pp.
- Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, E. 1803. Catalogue des mammiferes du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 272 pp.
- Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1980. A world list of mammalian species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp.