<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Vulpes Frisch 1775</title> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"/> </head> <body> <p> <i>Vulpes</i> Frisch, 1775. Das Natur-System der Vierfüssigen Thiere, p. 15.</p> <p> TYPE SPECIES: <i>Canis vulpes</i> Linnaeus, 1758, by designation under the plenary powers (Melville and Smith, 1978).</p> <p> SYNONYMS: <i>Fennecus</i> Desmarest, 1804.</p> <p> COMMENTS: Although Frisch (1774 (1775]) has been ruled a rejected work for nomenclatural purposes, <i>Vulpes</i> has been retained (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1979). Considered a subgenus of <i>Canis</i> by Van Gelder (1978); however, this arrangement is not currently employed by most mammalogists (Corbet, 1978c; Corbet and Hill, 1980; Gromov and Baranova, 1981; Hall, 1981; Wozencraft, 1989b). Includes <i>Fennecus; see</i> comments under <i>V. zerda</i> and <i>Urocyon.</i></p> </body> </html>