Vulpes corsac (Linnaeus 1768)

[Canis] corsac Linnaeus 1768, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., Vol. 3: appendix 223.

Type Locality: "in campis magi deserti ab Jaco fluvio verus Irtim"; listed by Honacki et al. (1982) as " U.S. S. R., N. Kazakhstan, steppes between Ural and Irtysh rivers, near Petropavlovsk." .

Vernacular Names: Corsac Fox.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Vulpes corsac subsp. corsac Linnaeus 1768

Subspecies Vulpes corsac subsp. kalmykorum Ognev 1935

Distribution: N Afghanistan, NE China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia.

Conservation: IUCN – Data Deficient.

Discussion: Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951).