Order Carnivora Author W. Christopher Wozencraft text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 279 348 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7359191 1-56098-217-9 7359191 Vulpes pallida (Cretzschmar, 1826) . In Rüppell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afr., Zool. Säugeth., 1 (2):33 , pl. 11. TYPE LOCALITY: "Kordofan" [ Sudan ]. DISTRIBUTION: Semiarid sahelian region of Africa from Senegal through Nigeria , Cameroon , and Sudan to Somalia . STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known. SYNONYMS: edwardsi Rochebrune, 1883 ; harterti Thomas and Hinton, 1921 ; oertzeni Matschie, 1910; sabbar Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1832.