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Procyon gymnocercus (pampas fox)
Taxonomy
Procyon gymnocercus was named by Fischer (1814). It is extant.
It was recombined as Pseudalopex gymnocercus by Osgood (1915), Cabrera (1931), van Gelder (1978) and Wang et al. (2008); it was recombined as Lycalopex gymnocercus by Wilson and Reeder (2005), Lucherini and Luengos Vidal (2008), Burgin et al. (2018) and Favarini et al. (2022).
It was recombined as Pseudalopex gymnocercus by Osgood (1915), Cabrera (1931), van Gelder (1978) and Wang et al. (2008); it was recombined as Lycalopex gymnocercus by Wilson and Reeder (2005), Lucherini and Luengos Vidal (2008), Burgin et al. (2018) and Favarini et al. (2022).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1814 | Dusicyon gymnocercus Fischer |
| 1814 | Procyon gymnocercus Fischer |
| 1821 | Canis brasiliensis Schinz |
| 1839 | Canis protalopex Lund |
| 1842 | Vulpes azarae Gray |
| 1898 | Canis azarai Lahille |
| 1914 | Pseudalopex azarica Thomas |
| 1915 | Pseudalopex gymnocercus Osgood |
| 1931 | Pseudalopex gymnocercus Cabrera |
| 1978 | Pseudalopex gymnocercus van Gelder |
| 2005 | Lycalopex gymnocercus Wilson and Reeder |
| 2008 | Lycalopex gymnocercus Lucherini and Luengos Vidal |
| 2008 | Pseudalopex gymnocercus Wang et al. |
| 2018 | Lycalopex gymnocercus Burgin et al. |
| 2022 | Lycalopex gymnocercus Favarini et al. |
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Procyon gymnocercus Fischer 1814 [pampas fox]
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Diagnosis
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| M. Lucherini and E. M. Luengos Vidal 2008 | Lycalopex gymnocercus is similar in size to L. culpaeus but has a proportionally wider rostrum relative to palate length (27–32% versus 24%) and less reddish coloration of head, neck, and ears than L. culpaeus (Clutton-Brock et al. 1976; Novaro 1997). L. gymnocercus is larger (mean body mass = 4–6 kg; length of hind foot = 128–145 mm) than L. griseus (mean body mass = 2.5–4 kg; length of hind foot = 122–130 mm) but otherwise similarly colored and similarly proportioned. There is less separation between the minimum constriction of frontal bones and the postorbital apophysis in L. gymnocercus than in L. griseus (Gonzalez del Solar and Rau 2004; Lucherini et al. 2004). The forelegs of L. gymnocercus are gray externally and the soles of the feet are blackish brown, whereas the forelegs are entirely red-yellow in L. griseus and soles of the feet are red-brown (Gray 1869). |
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Van Valkenburgh 1988, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available