Vulpes velox (Say, 1823)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 244-289 : 249-250

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scientific name	Vulpes velox (Say, 1823)
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Vulpes velox (Say, 1823) View in CoL . In Long, Account of an Exped. from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mtns., 1:487.

REVIEWED BY: H. J. Egoscue (HJE).

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., Colorado, South Platte River .

DISTRIBUTION: Central North America from C. Alberta ( Canada) to N. W. Texas and E. New Mexico ( U.S.A.).

COMMENT: Placed in subgenus Canis , subgenus Vulpes by Van Gelder, 1978:1- 10. Distinct from macrotis ; see Thornton and Creel, 1975, Texas J. Sci., 26: 127- 136; Rohwer and Kilgore, 1973, Syst. Zool., 22: 157; but also see Hall, 1981:940. Clutton-Brock, et al., 1976, 29(3):117-199, combined velox and macrotis for analysis only. Reviewed by Egoscue, 1979, Mamm. Species, 122:1-5.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I and U.S. ESA - Endangered as V. v. hebes subspecies only.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412001015009001.