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Taxonomy
Vulpes was named by Frisch (1775). It is extant. Its type is Canis vulpes.
It was reranked as Canis (Vulpes) by van Gelder (1978).
It was assigned to Canis by van Gelder (1978); to Vulpini by de Bonis et al. (2007), Wang et al. (2008), Tedford et al. (2009), Hartstone-Rose et al. (2013), Bartolini Lucenti (2021); and to Canidae by Frisch (1775), Bourguignat (1875), Schultz and Howard (1935), Wilson (1967), Kurten (1968), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Hall (1981), Carroll (1988), Wozencraft (1989), Wilson and Reeder (1993), Geraads (1997), Werdelin and Peigne (2010), Geraads (2011), Geraads et al. (2015), Koufos (2022).
It was reranked as Canis (Vulpes) by van Gelder (1978).
It was assigned to Canis by van Gelder (1978); to Vulpini by de Bonis et al. (2007), Wang et al. (2008), Tedford et al. (2009), Hartstone-Rose et al. (2013), Bartolini Lucenti (2021); and to Canidae by Frisch (1775), Bourguignat (1875), Schultz and Howard (1935), Wilson (1967), Kurten (1968), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Hall (1981), Carroll (1988), Wozencraft (1989), Wilson and Reeder (1993), Geraads (1997), Werdelin and Peigne (2010), Geraads (2011), Geraads et al. (2015), Koufos (2022).
Species
Alopex praeglacialis, Fennecus caama, Fennecus pallidus, Fennecus zaarensis, Fennecus zerda, V. alopecoides, V. angustidens, V. beihaiensis, V. bengalensis, V. cana, V. chama, V. chikushanensis, V. corsac, V. ferrilata, V. flavescens, V. galaticus, V. griffithi, V. hassani, V. japonica, V. karagan, V. kernensis, V. lagopus, V. macrotis, V. mathisoni, V. montana, V. niloticus, V. odessana, V. pallida, V. pensylvanicus, V. praecorsac, V. praeglacialis (syn. V. marinosi), V. pusilla, V. riffautae, V. rooki, V. rueppellii, V. sinensis, V. skinneri, V. stenognathus, V. velox, V. vulgaris, V. vulpes (syn. V. fulva, Canis alopex, Canis vulpes montana, V. vulpes cascadensis, V. palmaria), V. zerda
Species lacking formal opinion data