curtailed fox
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[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/San_Joaquin_kit_fox_male.jpg/220px-San_Joaquin_kit_fox_male.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Coined in 1904 by zoologist Daniel Giraud Elliot.[1]
Noun
[edit]curtailed fox (plural curtailed foxes)
- (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, , 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
[edit]- ^ Editorial Comment[1], 1920
- ^ 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[2], Chicago, →LCCN, →OCLC
- ^ Canids of the World (Princeton Field Guides), Princeton University Press, 2018, →ISBN, page 189