Vulpes Frisch, 1775

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 285-286

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Vulpes Frisch, 1775 View in CoL . Das Natur-System der Vierfüssigen Thiere, p. 15.

TYPE SPECIES: Canis vulpes Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL , by designation under the plenary powers (Melville and Smith, 1978).

SYNONYMS: Fennecus Desmarest, 1804.

COMMENTS: Although Frisch (1774 (1775]) has been ruled a rejected work for nomenclatural purposes, Vulpes has been retained (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1979). Considered a subgenus of Canis by Van Gelder (1978); however, this arrangement is not currently employed by most mammalogists ( Corbet, 1978c; Corbet and Hill, 1980; Gromov and Baranova, 1981; Hall, 1981; Wozencraft, 1989b). Includes Fennecus; see comments under V. zerda and Urocyon .