狐属

狐属(学名:)是犬科动物下的一个,其中包括的各“真”狐狸,其他属也有一些种类被称为“狐”的。

狐屬
化石时期:[1]
科学分类 编辑
界: 动物界 Animalia
门: 脊索动物门 Chordata
纲: 哺乳纲 Mammalia
目: 食肉目 Carnivora
科: 犬科 Canidae
亚科: 犬亚科 Caninae
族: 狐族 Vulpini
属: 狐屬 Vulpes
Frisch, 1775
模式種
赤狐 Vulpes vulpes
Linnaeus, 1758

见正文

異名
  • Alopex Kaup, 1829
  • Cynalopex Smith, 1839
  • Fennecus Desmarest, 1804
  • Leucocyon Gray, 1869
  • Mamvulpesus Herrera, 1899
  • Megalotis Illiger, 1811
  • Vulpes Bowdich, 1821
  • Vulpis Gray, 1821

狐属动物和犬科其他动物相比,如郊狼黑背豺等,体形要小一些,颅骨较平坦,尾巴尖端毛的颜色和尾巴其他部分有区别,行动敏捷,所以在人们的印象中狐属动物都比较狡猾。 [2]

北极狐有时会被单独列为一个北极狐属(Alopex[1][3]

下属物种

本属包括以下物种:

  • Vulpes alopecoides Forsyth Major, 1877
  • Vulpes angustidens Thenius, 1954
  • Vulpes beihaiensis Qiu & Tedford, 1990
  • 孟加拉狐 Vulpes bengalensis (Shaw, 1800)
  • 阿富汗狐 Vulpes cana Blanford, 1877
  • 南非狐 Vulpes chama (A.Smith, 1833)
  • Vulpes chikushanensis Young, 1930
  • 沙狐 Vulpes corsac (Linnaeus, 1768)
  • Vulpes ferilata Frisch, 1775
  • 藏狐 Vulpes ferrilata Hodgson, 1842
  • Vulpes flavescens Gray, 1843
  • Vulpes galaticus Ginsburg, 1998
  • Vulpes hassani Geraads, 2011
  • Vulpes ichnusae Miller, 1907
  • Vulpes indutus Miller, 1907
  • Vulpes kernensis Tedford et al., 2009
  • 北极狐 Vulpes lagopus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • 敏狐 Vulpes macrotis Merriam, 1888
  • Vulpes mathisoni Geraads, Drapeau, Bobe & Fleagle, 2013[4]
  • Vulpes minimus Skjöldebrand, 1777
  • 苍狐 Vulpes pallida (Cretzschmar, 1826)
  • Vulpes praecorsac Kormos, 1932
  • Vulpes praeglacialis (Kormos, 1932)
  • Vulpes qiuzhudingi Wang, Tseng, Li, Takeuchi & Xie, 2014[5]
  • Vulpes riffautae Bonis et al., 2007
  • Vulpes rooki Bartolini Lucenti, 2021
  • 大耳沙狐 Vulpes rueppellii (Schinz, 1825)
  • Vulpes stenognathus Savage, 1941
  • 草原狐 Vulpes velox (Say, 1823)
  • Vulpes vulgaris Oken, 1816
  • 赤狐 Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • 耳廓狐 Vulpes zerda (Zimmermann, 1780)
归入本属的物种:
  • Alopex praeglacialis Kaup, 1829
  • Fennecus arabicus Desmarest, 1804

注释

  1. Wozencraft, W.C. . Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (编). (3rd ed.). Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005: 532–628. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. LCCN 2005001870. OCLC 62265494. NLC 001238428.
  2. Macdonald, David. . New York: Facts on File. 1984: 31. ISBN 0-87196-871-1.
  3. Bininda-Emonds, ORP; JL Gittleman, A Purvis. (PDF). Biol. Rev. 1999, 74 (2): 143–175 [2008-07-30]. PMID 10396181. doi:10.1017/S0006323199005307.
  4. Denis Geraads, Michelle S. M. Drapeau, René Bobe & John G. Fleagle (2015) Vulpes mathisoni, sp. nov., a new fox from the Pliocene Mursi Formation of southern Ethiopia and its contribution to the origin of African foxes, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 35:4, DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2014.943765
  5. Xiaoming Wang, Zhijie Jack Tseng, Qiang Li, Gary T. Takeuchi and Guangpu Xie. 2014. From ‘Third Pole’ to North Pole: a Himalayan Origin for the Arctic Fox. Proc. R. Soc. B. 281(1787). doi: dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0893
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