Main Species


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Each recognised fox species is listed below. Click on the fox you would like to read about to access the page about them. (some are currently unfinished but will be added soon)

  • Island fox — Urocyon littoralis
  • Kit fox — Vulpes macrotis
  • Pale fox — Vulpes pallida
  • Pampas fox — Lycalopex gymnocercus
  • Red fox — Vulpes vulpes
  • Rüppell’s fox — Vulpes rueppellii
  • Sechuran fox — Lycalopex sechurae
  • South American gray fox — Lycalopex griseus
  • Swift fox — Vulpes velox
  • Tibetan sand fox — Vulpes ferrilata

This website follows the American Society of Mammalogists’ Mammal Diversity Database (ASM MDD) for species-level taxonomy and includes living canid species that are commonly recognised as foxes, regardless of their current genus.