Otocyon megalotis (Desmarest 1822)

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 : 582

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11344768

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scientific name

Otocyon megalotis (Desmarest 1822)
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Otocyon megalotis (Desmarest 1822) View in CoL

[Canis] megalotis Desmarest 1822 View in CoL , Mammalogie, in: Encycl. Meth., 2 (Suppl.): 538.

Type Locality: "le Cap de Bonne-Espérance" [ South Africa, Western Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope].

Vernacular Names: Bat-eared Fox.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Otocyon megalotis subsp. megalotis Desmarest 1822

Subspecies Otocyon megalotis subsp. canescens Cabrera 1910

Distribution: Allopatric south and east African populations: Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Synonyms allocated according to G. M. Allen (1939) and Ellerman et al. (1953).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Canidae

Genus

Otocyon

Loc

Otocyon megalotis (Desmarest 1822)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

[Canis] megalotis

Desmarest 1822: 538
1822
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