Alopex Kaup, 1829

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 279

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Alopex Kaup, 1829 View in CoL . Skizz. Entwickel. Gesch. Nat. Syst. Europ. Theirwelt, 1:85.

TYPE SPECIES: Canis lagopus Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL , by monotypy ( International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1956a; Melville and Smith, 1987).

COMMENTS: Bobrinskii et al. (1965) considered Alopex a subgenus of Vulpes ; Van Gelder (1978) considered it a subgenus of Canis .