Fox - Classification

Classification

Canids commonly known as foxes include members of the following genera:

• Alopex: Arctic fox, although the definitive mammal taxonomy list as well as genetic evidence places it in Vulpes, and not as a genus unto itself.
• Canis: The Ethiopian Wolf, also called, variously, Semien fox or Semien jackal (though recently renamed to reflect its biological affinity with the gray wolf).
• Cerdocyon: Crab-eating fox.
• Dusicyon: Falkland Islands fox.
• Lycalopex: Six South American species.
• Otocyon: Bat-eared fox.
• Urocyon: Gray fox, island fox and Cozumel fox.
• Vulpes: Including 12 species of true foxes, including the red fox, V. vulpes, Tibetan Sand Fox, Vulpes ferrilata and their closest kin.

• The fennec fox is the smallest species of fox.

• Arctic fox curled up in snow.

• A Chilla fox in Pan de Azúcar National Park in the coast of Atacama Desert.

• Crab-eating fox, a South American species.

• Fox exhibit at Cape Fear Museum in Wilmington, North Carolina

• Red fox. Ystad/Sweden 2012.