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
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Urocyon cinereoargenteus
(Schreber, 1775)
.
Die Säugethiere, 2(13):pl. 92
[1775]; text: 3(21):361 [1776].
TYPE LOCALITY:
"Sein Vaterland ist Carolina und die Wärmeren Gegenden von Nordamerica, vielleicht auch
Surinam
."
DISTRIBUTION: North America from Oregon, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado in the West and the USA-Canadian border in the East through Central America to N
Colombia
and
Venezuela
.
SYNONYMS:
borealis
Merriam, 1903
;
californicus
Mearns, 1897;
colimensis
Goldman, 1938;
costaricensis
Goodwin, 1938
;
floridanus
Rhoads, 1895
;
fraterculus
Elliot, 1896;
furvus
Allen and Barbour, 1923;
guatemalae
Miller, 1899;
inyoensis
Elliot, 1904;
madrensis
Burt and Hooper, 1941;
nigrirostris
Lichtenstein, 1850;
ocythous
Bangs, 1899;
orinontus
Goldman, 1938;
parvidens
Miller, 1899;
peninsularis
Huey, 1928;
pensylvanicus
Boddaert, 1784;
scottii
Mearns, 1891;
sequoiensis
Dixon, 1910;
texensis
Mearns, 1897
;
townsendi
Merriam, 1899
;
virginianus
Schreber, 1775
.
COMMENTS: Reviewed by
Fritzell and Haroldson (1982
, Mammalian Species, 189). Placed in
Canis (Vulpes)
by
Van
Gelder (1978)
;
Clutton-Brock et al. (1976)
placed it in
Vulpes (Urocyon)
.