Alopex lagopus (Linnaeus, 1758)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 279

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scientific name	Alopex lagopus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Alopex lagopus (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:40.

TYPE LOCALITY: "alpibus Lapponicis, Sibiria, " restricted by Thomas (1911a) to " Sweden (Lapland)."

DISTRIBUTION: Circumpolar, entire tundra zone of the Holarctic, including most of the Arctic islands.

SYNONYMS: arctica Oken, 1816; argenteus Billberg, 1827; beringensis Merriam, 1902; beringianus Cherski, 1920; caerulea Nilsson, 1820; fuliginosus Bechstein, 1799; groenlandicus Bechstein, 1799 ; hallensis Merriam, 1900; innuitus Merriam, 1902; kenaiensis Brass, 1911 ; pribilofensis Merriam, 1902; spitzbergenensis Barrett-Hamilton and Bonhote, 1898; typicus Barrett-Hamilton and Bonhote, 1898 ; ungava Merriam, 1902.

COMMENTS: Viable hybrids have been recorded between Alopex lagopus and Vulpes vulpes ( Chiarelli, 1975) .