Vulpes corsac (Linnaeus, 1768) . Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 3: appendix 223.

TYPE LOCALITY: "in campis magi deserti ab Jaco fluvio verus Irtim"; listed by Honacki et al. (1982) as " U.S. S. R., N. Kazakhstan, steppes between Ural and Irtysh rivers, near Petropavlovsk."

DISTRIBUTION: Kazakhstan, Russia, C Asia, Mongolia, Transbaikalia, NE China, N Afghanistan.

STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known.

SYNONYMS: kalmykorum Ognev, 1935; nigra Kastschenko, 1912; scorodumovi Bobrinskii, 1944; turkmenica Ognev, 1935.