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Alopex (Arctic fox)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

Taxonomy
Alopex was named by Kaup (1829). It is extant.

It was reranked as Canis (Alopex) by van Gelder (1978).

It was assigned to Canis by van Gelder (1978); and to Canidae by Kaup (1829), Kurten (1968), Kurten and Anderson (1980) and Carroll (1988).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1829Alopex Kaup
1968Alopex Kurten p. 116
1978Canis (Alopex) van Gelder
1980Alopex Kurten and Anderson p. 174
1988Alopex Carroll

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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
genusAlopexKaup 1829

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.

G. Alopex Kaup 1829 [Arctic fox]
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†Alopex praeglacialis Kormos 1932
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available