狐属
犬科的一属哺乳动物
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。
狐屬 化石时期：[1]
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| 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 |
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| 赤狐 Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus, 1758
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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。 [2]
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
- ^ 1.0 1.1 Wozencraft, W.C. Order Carnivora. Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (编). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005: 532–628. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. LCCN 2005001870. OCLC 62265494. NLC 001238428.
- ^ Macdonald, David. The Encyclopedia of Mammals. New York: Facts on File. 1984: 31. ISBN 0-87196-871-1.
- ^ Bininda-Emonds, ORP; JL Gittleman, A Purvis. Building large trees by combining phylogenetic information: a complete phylogeny of the extant Carnivora (Mammalia) (PDF). Biol. Rev. 1999, 74 (2): 143–175 [2008-07-30]. PMID 10396181. doi:10.1017/S0006323199005307. [永久失效連結]
- ^ 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