Subspecies Vulpes vulpes vulpes Linnaeus, 1758

Museums

Regional Maps

• Canis vulpes Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [40].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (not found in ZIUU or NHRM), 'Europa, Asia, Africa'; Thomas (1911: 134) identified the type locality as 'Sweden (Upsala)'.

  Type locality references:

  Thomas, O. 1911. The mammals of the tenth edition of Linnaeus; an attempt to fix the types of the genera and the exact bases and localities of the species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1911: 120-158.
• Canis vulpes crucigera Bechstein, J.M. 1789. Gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte Deutschlands nach allen drey Reichen. Ein Handbuch zur deutlichern und vollständigern Gelbstbelehrung besonders für Forstmändigern Jugendlehrer und Ockonomen. Erster Band welcher die nöthigen Vorkenntnisse und die Geschicte der Säugthiere enthält. Leipzig : S.L. Crusius xvi 842 pp. 17 pls. [250] [recorded from Australia by de Vos, A., Manville, R.H. & Van Gelder, R.G. 1956. Introduced mammals and their influence on native biota. Zoologica N.Y. 41: 163–194 [179]].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, 'Thüringen', S Europe.

  Secondary source:

   de Vos, A., Manville, R.H. & Van Gelder, R.G. 1956. Introduced mammals and their influence on native biota. Zoologica (New York) N.Y. 41: 163-194.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Necrophagous, nocturnal, omnivore, peridomestic, predator, subtropical, temperate, terrestrial, territorial.

History of changes