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Vulpes  Frisch, 1775
Taxonomic Serial No.: 180603

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s): Alopex Kaup, 1829
  
  Common Name(s): kit foxes [English]
  
    red foxes [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2015   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderCarnivora Bowdich, 1821 – cachorro do mato, carnívoro, gato do mato, lontra, carnivores, carnivores  
                                  SuborderCaniformia Kretzoi, 1938 – dog-like carnivores  
                                     FamilyCanidae G. Fischer von Waldheim, 1817 – coyotes, dogs, foxes, jackals, wolves  
                                        GenusVulpes Frisch, 1775 – kit foxes, red foxes  
    Direct Children:  
                                           Species Vulpes bengalensis (Shaw, 1800) – Bengal Fox 
                                           Species Vulpes cana Blanford, 1877 – Blanford's Fox 
                                           Species Vulpes chama (A. Smith, 1833) – Cape Fox 
                                           Species Vulpes corsac (Linnaeus, 1768) – Corsac Fox 
                                           Species Vulpes ferrilata Hodgson, 1842 – Tibetan fox, Tibetan Sand Fox 
                                           Species Vulpes lagopus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Blue Fox, Ice Fox, Polar Fox, White Fox, Arctic Fox 
                                           Species Vulpes macrotis Merriam, 1888 – Kit Fox 
                                           Species Vulpes pallida (Cretzschmar, 1826) – Pale Fox 
                                           Species Vulpes rueppellii (Schinz, 1825) – Rüppell's Fox 
                                           Species Vulpes velox (Say, 1823) – Swift Fox, Zorra desértica 
                                           Species Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758) – Red Fox, renard roux 
                                           Species Vulpes zerda (Zimmermann, 1780) – Fennec, Fennec Fox 
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Alfred L. Gardner  
  Notes: Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA   
  Reference for: Vulpes    
       
  Expert: W. Christopher Wozencraft  
  Notes: Division of Natural Sciences, Bethel College, 1001 W. McKinley Ave., Mishawaka, IN 46545   
  Reference for: Vulpes    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Vulpes   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner  
  Publication Date: 1987   
  Article/Chapter Title: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Resource Publication, no. 166   
  Page(s): 79   
  Publisher: United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service   
  Publication Place: Washington, D.C., USA   
  ISBN/ISSN:    
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Vulpes   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature  
  Publication Date: 1979   
  Article/Chapter Title: OPINION 1129. Vulpes Frisch, 1775 (Mammalia) conserved under the plenary powers   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 36, part 2   
  Page(s): 76-78   
  Publisher:    
  Publication Place:    
  ISBN/ISSN: 0007-5167   
  Notes: Available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12226979   
  Reference for: Vulpes   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Rice, Dale W.  
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title: Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Special Publications of the Society for Marine Mammals, no. 4   
  Page(s): ix + 231   
  Publisher: The Society for Marine Mammalogy   
  Publication Place: Lawrence, Kansas, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-891276-03-4   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Vulpes   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing   
  Page(s): xviii + 1207   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-217-9   
  Notes: Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing   
  Reference for: Vulpes   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2   
  Page(s): 2142   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Vulpes   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Vulpes Frisch, 1775 has been ruled as available, despite being published in the unavailable work Frisch (1775); see Opinion 1129 (ICZN 1979)  
 

 

    

 
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