Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Alternative combinations: Alopex lagopus, Canis lagopus, Leucocyon lagopus
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Belongs to Vulpes according to X.-M. Wang et al. 2008
See also Boule and De Villeneuve 1927, Bourguignat 1875, Crile and Quiring 1940, Kurten 1968, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Linnaeus 1758, Thomas 1911 and van Gelder 1978
Sister taxa: Vulpes alopecoides, Vulpes angustidens, Vulpes beihaiensis, Vulpes bengalensis, Vulpes cana, Vulpes chama, Vulpes chikushanensis, Vulpes corsac, Vulpes ferrilata, Vulpes flavescens, Vulpes galaticus, Vulpes griffithi, Vulpes hassani, Vulpes japonica, Vulpes karagan, Vulpes kernensis, Vulpes macrotis, Vulpes mathisoni, Vulpes montana, Vulpes niloticus, Vulpes odessana, Vulpes pallida, Vulpes pensylvanicus, Vulpes praecorsac, Vulpes praeglacialis, Vulpes pusilla, Vulpes riffautae, Vulpes rooki, Vulpes rueppellii, Vulpes sinensis, Vulpes skinneri, Vulpes stenognathus, Vulpes velox, Vulpes vulgaris, Vulpes vulpes, Vulpes zerda, Fennecus pallidus, Fennecus zerda, Fennecus zaarensis, Fennecus caama
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (16: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon collections), Greenland (17), Monaco (1), North Pacific (1), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (4), United States (3: Alaska)
Total: 45 collections each including a single occurrence
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