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Vulpes rueppellii (Ruuppells fox)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

Taxonomy
Canis rueppellii was named by Schinz (1825) [Schinz's original spelling was doubly incorrect, employing an umlaut over the u and including one l instead of two: see Grubb 2004]. It is extant.

It was misspelled as Vulpes rueppellii by Bertram and Biewener (1990); it was recombined as Vulpes rueppellii by van Gelder (1978), Wang et al. (2008), Geraads (2011) and Burgin et al. (2018).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1825Canis rueppellii Schinz p. 508
1978Vulpes rueppellii van Gelder
1990Vulpes rueppellii Bertram and Biewener
2008Vulpes rueppellii Wang et al.
2011Vulpes rueppellii Geraads
2018Vulpes rueppellii Burgin et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Ferae()
CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
familyCanidae
genusVulpesFrisch 1775
speciesrueppellii(Schinz 1825)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Vulpes rueppellii Schinz 1825 [Ruuppells fox]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available