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Urocyon cinereoargenteus

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Department of Life Science, University of Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 10, 34127 Trieste, Italy
  • 2. Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 / d, 41125 Modena, Italy & PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Bezuidenhoutseweg 30, 2594 AV The Hague, Netherlands
  • 3. Asociación Ecológica Paquera, Lepanto y Cóbano, PO Box 25 - 5353, Jicaral, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
  • 4. Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 / d, 41125 Modena, Italy
  • 5. Associazione Foreste per Sempre OdV, Via D'Avia Sud 65 / a, 41126 Modena, Italy
  • 6. Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 / d, 41125 Modena, Italy & Associazione Foreste per Sempre OdV, Via D'Avia Sud 65 / a, 41126 Modena, Italy

Description

Urocyon cinereoargenteus (von Schreber, 1775)

Material examined.

Costa Rica • Puntarenas Province, Karen Mogensen Wildlife Refuge; 09°52'28"N, 085°03'27"W; 382 m alt.; 02.02.2019; direct observation.

Identification.

Relatively small canid, smaller than the coyote, with rather short legs. The fur is mainly grey in the upperparts and brownish-rufous in the underparts; throat and cheeks white. The colours of the upper and lower sides are delimited by a brownish band. The ears are triangular and held erect, the tail is bushy with black tip. The throat is white and the face grey, and the sides of the neck, the abdomen and the base of the tail are reddish. This species is one of the few canids able to climb trees (Hernández-Hernández and Chávez 2021; Reid and Gόmez Zamora 2022). Occasionally recorded in dry habitats in the Wildlife Refuge.

Notes

Published as part of Fonda, Federica, Vezzani, Liam, Mena Aguilar, Luis Ángel, Venegas-Elizondo, Carlos Andrés, Bolaños Brenes, Alexander, Lopez, Dayron Manuel, Romeo, Giuseppe, Sonetti, Dario & Dal Zotto, Matteo, 2025, Mammal diversity and tourism influence in an under-investigated region of Costa Rica, pp. 37-74 in ZooKeys 1260 on pages 37-74, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1260.128800

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/A06B322CBAAD52B38FBB8A4D7C7C0320

Cites
Publication: 10.15560/17.4.1155 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.3897/zookeys.1260.128800 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/1B73044D6EBF5FF0BDAF874EDB4F5991 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/4327BF20-1A59-43BD-93CC-4AC6B8098403 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/A06B322CBAAD52B38FBB8A4D7C7C0320 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/305982129 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/313097/taxon/A06B322CBAAD52B38FBB8A4D7C7C0320.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Event date
2019-02-02
Verbatim event date
2019-02-02
Scientific name authorship
von Schreber
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Canidae
Genus
Urocyon
Species
cinereoargenteus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Urocyon cinereoargenteus (Schreber, 1775) sec. Fonda, Vezzani, Aguilar, Venegas-Elizondo, Brenes, Lopez, Romeo, Sonetti & Zotto, 2025

References

  • Hernández-Hernández JC, Chávez C (2021) Inventory of medium-sized and large mammals in La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve and Puerto Arista Estuarine System, Chiapas, Mexico. Check List 17: 1155–1170. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.4.1155
  • Reid F, Gοmez Zamora G (2022) Pocket Guide to the Mammals of Costa Rica. Cornell University Press, New York, 286 pp.