Order Carnivora Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 244 289 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7352980 1ce75501-9bd6-4f4f-b9de-34a393211f7b 0-89327-235-3 7352980 Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:40 . TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden , Uppsala . DISTRIBUTION: Europe and continental Asia except the tundra; N. India and peninsular Indochina; Japan ; Palearctic Africa; N. America as far south as Texas and New Mexico ( U.S.A. ), but absent in part of the Central Plains and the Arctic. COMMENT: Includes fulva; see Hall, 1981:936 . Placed in genus Canis , subgenus Vulpes by Van Gelder, 1978:8 . ISIS NUMBER: 5301412001015010000.