Vulpes corsac (Linnaeus, 1768)

Augugliaro, Claudio, Paniccia, Chiara, Janchivlamdan, Choikhand, Monti, Ibra E., Boldbaatar, Turmunkh & Munkhtsog, Bariusha, 2019, Mammal inventory in the Mongolian Gobi, with the southeasternmost documented record of the Snow Leopard, Panthera uncia (Schreber, 1775), in the country, Check List 15 (4), pp. 565-578 : 576

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scientific name	Vulpes corsac (Linnaeus, 1768)
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Records. First record was in August 12, 2017 in the occasional sightings site OS3 (43°02.556′ N, 106°17.539′E – 7:00 pm); and subsequently in the monitoring site SGHI1 ( Table 4); Figure 5J.

Identification. It is 1 of the 2 species belong to genus Vulpes (the other being Vulpes vulpes ) occurring in Mongolia. It is smaller than V. vulpes and can be distin- guished by the shorter black-tipped tail and yellowishwhite legs ( Batsaikhan 2014).