狐属(学名:Vulpes)是犬科动物下的一个属,其中包括的各种“真”狐狸,其他属也有一些种类被称为“狐”的。
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狐屬
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科学分类
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界:
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动物界 Animalia
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门:
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脊索动物门 Chordata
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纲:
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哺乳纲 Mammalia
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目:
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食肉目 Carnivora
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科:
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犬科 Canidae
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亚科:
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犬亚科 Caninae
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族:
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狐族 Vulpini
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属:
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狐屬 Vulpes Frisch, 1775
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模式種
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赤狐 Vulpes vulpes
Linnaeus, 1758
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种
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见正文
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異名
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- Alopex Kaup, 1829
- Cynalopex Smith, 1839
- Fennecus Desmarest, 1804
- Leucocyon Gray, 1869
- Mamvulpesus Herrera, 1899
- Megalotis Illiger, 1811
- Vulpes Bowdich, 1821
- Vulpis Gray, 1821
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关闭
狐属动物和犬科其他动物相比,如狼、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。
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北极狐有时会被单独列为一个北极狐属(Alopex)[1][3]。
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
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
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