Vulpes velox
Creators: name: W. Christopher Wozencraft
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Canidae
Vulpes
Vulpes velox

description: <i>Vulpes velox</i> (Say, 1823). <i>In</i> James, Account of an Exped. from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mtns, 1:487. TYPE LOCALITY: "camp on the river Platte, at the fording place of the Pawnee Indians, twenty-seven miles below the confluence of the North and South, or Paduca Forks." [Camp on 20 June 1820 reported to be at 40°59'15'N (vol. 2)]. DISTRIBUTION: C North America from SE British Columbia, SC Alberta and SW Saskatchewan (Canada) to NW Texas (panhandle) and E New Mexico, east of Rockies (USA). STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered as <i>V. v. hebes</i> (Canada populations) and as <i>V. macrotis mutica.</i> SYNONYMS: <i>arizonensis</i> Goldman, 1931; <i>arsipus</i> Elliot, 1903; <i>devia</i> Nelson and Goldman, 1909; <i>hebes</i> Merriam, 1902; <i>macrotis</i> Merriam, 1888; <i>muticus</i> Merriam, 1902; <i>neomexicana</i> Merriam, 1902; <i>nevadensis</i> Goldman, 1931; <i>tenuirostris</i> Nelson and Goldman, 1931; <i>zinseri</i> Benson, 1938. COMMENTS: Reviewed by Egoscue (1979, Mammalian Species, 122) and McGrew (1979, Mammalian Species, 123, as <i>V. macrotis).</i> Revised by Waithman and Roest (1977) and Dragoo et al. (1990). Blair et al. (1968), Lechleitner (1969), Bueler (1973), and Dragoo et al. (1990) considered <i>macrotis</i> and <i>velox</i> conspecific. Packard and Bowers (1970), Rohwer and Kilgore (1973), and Thornton and Creel (1975) (who found hybrids between <i>velox</i> and <i>macrotis</i> but concluded they were of reduced viability) retained both as species.
description: Published as part of <i>W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on pages 286-287, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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