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Urocyon littoralis
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Description
Urocyon littoralis (Baird, 1857). Mammalia, in Repts. U.S. Expl. Surv., 8(1):143.
TYPE LOCALITY: "island of San Miguel, on the coast of California."
DISTRIBUTION: Islands off the Pacific coast of S California (USA).
STATUS: IUCN - Rare.
SYNONYMS: catalinae Merriam, 1903; clementae Merriam, 1903; dickeyi Grinnell and Linsdale, 1930; santacruzae Merriam, 1903; santarosae Grinnell and Linsdale, 1930.
COMMENTS: Placed in Canis (Vulpes) by Van Gelder (1978); Clutton-Brock et al. (1976) placed it in Vulpes (Urocyon). May be conspecific with U. cinereoargenteus (Stains, 1975; Van Gelder, 1978).
Notes
Published as part of W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 285, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BD1F4E51C329747CFFD6FC3FFFE0142F (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Baird
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Canidae
- Genus
- Urocyon
- Species
- littoralis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Urocyon littoralis (Baird, 1857) sec. Wozencraft, 1993
References
- Van Gelder, R. G. 1978. A review of canid classification. American Museum Novitates, 2646: 1 - 10.
- Clutton-Brock, J., G. B. Corbet, and M. Hills. 1976. A review of the family Canidae, with classification by numerical methods. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 29 (3): 119 - 199.
- Stains, H. J. 1975. Distribution and taxonomy of the Canidae, Pp. 3 - 26, in The wild canids: Their systematics, behavorial ecology and evolution (M. W. Fox, ed.). Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, NY, 508 pp.