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 Alopex Kaup, 1829 . Skizz. Entwickel. Gesch. Nat. Syst. Europ. Theirwelt, 1:85 . TYPE SPECIES: Canis lagopus Linnaeus, 1758 , by monotypy ( International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1956a ; Melville and Smith, 1987 ). COMMENTS: Bobrinskii et al. (1965) considered Alopex a subgenus of Vulpes ; Van Gelder (1978) considered it a subgenus of Canis .