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Taxonomy
Canis lagopus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.
It was recombined as Leucocyon lagopus by Bourguignat (1875); it was recombined as Alopex lagopus by Thomas (1911), Kurten (1968), van Gelder (1978) and Kurten and Anderson (1980); it was recombined as Vulpes lagopus by Boule and De Villeneuve (1927), Crile and Quiring (1940) and Wang et al. (2008).
It was recombined as Leucocyon lagopus by Bourguignat (1875); it was recombined as Alopex lagopus by Thomas (1911), Kurten (1968), van Gelder (1978) and Kurten and Anderson (1980); it was recombined as Vulpes lagopus by Boule and De Villeneuve (1927), Crile and Quiring (1940) and Wang et al. (2008).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Canis lagopus Linnaeus p. 40 |
| 1875 | Leucocyon lagopus Bourguignat |
| 1911 | Alopex lagopus Thomas p. 135 |
| 1927 | Vulpes lagopus Boule and De Villeneuve p. 67 figs. Pl 12 |
| 1940 | Vulpes lagopus Crile and Quiring p. 229 |
| 1968 | Alopex lagopus Kurten p. 116 |
| 1978 | Alopex lagopus van Gelder |
| 1980 | Alopex lagopus Kurten and Anderson p. 174 |
| 2008 | Vulpes lagopus Wang et al. |
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Vulpes lagopus Linnaeus 1758 [Arctic fox]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Van Valkenburgh 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.77400 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (45 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Irvingtonian | Canada (Yukon) | Alopex lagopus (20434 20436) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Monaco | Vulpes lagopus (191726) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | Canada (Yukon) | Alopex lagopus (20626) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Alaska) | Alopex lagopus (81830) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Russian Federation (Respublika Saha (Jakutija)) | Alopex lagopus (48587) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Norway | Alopex lagopus (162578) Vulpes lagopus (227340 227461) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Alaska) | Alopex lagopus (20643) | |
| Holocene | Canada (Yukon) | Vulpes lagopus (228443) | |
| Holocene | Canada (Nunavut) | Vulpes lagopus (160848 228756 228896 228898 228919 228920 228927 228928 229484 229489) | |
| Holocene | North Pacific | Vulpes lagopus (227242) | |
| Holocene | USA (Alaska) | Alopex lagopus (92955) | |
| Holocene | Canada (Northwest Territories) | Vulpes lagopus (228444 228921) | |
| Holocene | Greenland | Alopex lagopus (162014) Vulpes lagopus (226353 227758 227817 227826 227829 227870 227873 227875 227876 227877 229885 229940 229942 229943 230120) | |
| Holocene | Russian Federation | Alopex lagopus (175940 175941 175942) | |
| Holocene | Greenland (Qeqertasussuk) | Alopex lagopus (187755) |