Urocyon littoralis Baird 1858

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 583

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scientific name	Urocyon littoralis Baird 1858
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Urocyon littoralis Baird 1858 View in CoL

Urocyon littoralis Baird 1858 View in CoL , Mammalia, in: Repts. U. S. Expl. Surv., Vol. 8, 1: 143.

Type Locality: "island of San Miguel, on the coast of California." .

Vernacular Names: Island Fox.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Urocyon littoralis subsp. littoralis Baird 1858

Subspecies Urocyon littoralis subsp. catalinae Merriam 1903

Subspecies Urocyon littoralis subsp. clementae Merriam 1903

Subspecies Urocyon littoralis subsp. dickeyi Grinnell and Linsdale 1930

Subspecies Urocyon littoralis subsp. santacruzae Merriam 1903

Subspecies Urocyon littoralis subsp. santarosae Grinnell and Linsdale 1930

Distribution: USA (Islands off the Pacific coast of S California).

Conservation: U.S. ESA – Proposed Endangered as U. littoralis catalinae , U. l. littoralis , U. l. santacruzae, and U. l. santarosae; IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).

Discussion: Reviewed by Moore and Collins, (1995). Placed in Canis (Vulpes) by Van Gelder (1978). Gilbert et al. (1990), George and Wayne (1991), Wayne et al. (1991 a, b), and Collins (1993) supported full species status. Synonyms allocated according to Moore and Collins (1995).

References

Collins, P. W. 1993. Taxonomic and biogeographic relationships of the island fox (Urocyon littoralis) and gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) from western North America. Pp. 351 - 390, in Proceedings of the third Channel Islands symposium: Recent advances in California Islands research (F. G. Hochberg, ed.). Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California. 661 pp.

George, S. B., and R. K. Wayne. 1991. Island foxes. A model for conservation genetics. Terra, 30: 18 - 23.

Gilbert, D. A., N. Lehman, S. J. O'Brien, and R. K. Wayne. 1990. Genetic fingerprinting reflects population differentiaion in the California Channel Island fox. Nature, 344: 764 - 767.

Moore, C. M., and P. W. Collins. 1995. Urocyon littoralis. Mammalian Species, 489: 1 - 7.

Van Gelder, R. G. 1978. A review of canid classification. American Museum Novitates, 2646: 1 - 10.

Wayne, R. K., S. B. George, D. Gilbert, and P. W. Collins. 1991 a. The channel island fox (Urocyon littoralis) as a model of genetic change in small populations. Pp. 639 - 649, in The unity of evolutionary biology (E. C. Dudley, ed.). Proceedings of the fourth international congress of systematic and evolutionary biology. Dioscorides Press, Portland, Oregon, 2: 1 - 1048.