curtailed fox

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English

A curtailed fox

Etymology

Coined in 1904 by zoologist Daniel Giraud Elliot.[1]

Noun

curtailed fox (plural curtailed foxes)

  1. (rare) A San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica).[2][3]
    • 2011, H. O. Clark, Jr., “The history of arid-land fox discoveries in North America”, in Archives of natural history, Edinburgh University Press, →DOI, page 310:
      Elliot (1905: 385) provided a common name for Vulpes mutica, the curtailed fox. Elliot was the first to match the specific epithet gender with the generic gender: V. mutica rather than V. muticus.

References

  1. ^ Editorial Comment, 1920
  2. ^ Elliot, Daniel Giraud, 1835-1915, Chicago Natural History Museum (1905) A check list of mammals of the North American continent, the West Indies and the neighboring seas, Chicago, →LCCN, →OCLC
  3. ^ Canids of the World (Princeton Field Guides), Princeton University Press, 2018, →ISBN, page 189