Talk:Darwin's fox

Updating taxonomy
I will be updating the Canidae taxonomy and common names to match Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed, 2005) as follows:


 * Family Canidae
 * Genus Vulpes
 * Vulpes lagopus - Arctic Fox (4 subspecies)
 * Vulpes macrotis - Kit Fox
 * Vulpes pallida - Pale Fox (5 subspecies)
 * Vulpes bengalensis - Bengal Fox
 * Vulpes cana - Blanford's Fox
 * Vulpes chama - Cape Fox
 * Vulpes corsac Corsac Fox (2 subspecies)
 * Vulpes ferrilata - move Tibetan Fox to Tibetan Sand Fox (includes ekloni)
 * Vulpes rueppellii - Rüppell's Fox (5 subspecies)
 * Vulpes velox - Swift Fox (includes hebes)
 * Vulpes vulpes - Red Fox (45 subspecies)
 * Vulpes zerda - move Fennec to Fennec Fox
 * Genus Atelocynus
 * Atelocynus microtis - Short-eared Dog
 * Genus Canis
 * Canis adustus - Side-striped Jackal (6 subspecies)
 * Canis aureus - Golden Jackal (13 subspecies)
 * Canis latrans - Coyote (19 subspecies)
 * Canis lupus - Grey Wolf - (37 subspecies, including dingo, familiaris and lycaon)
 * Canis mesomelas - Black-backed Jackal (2 subspecies)
 * Canis simensis - Ethiopian Wolf (2 subspecies)
 * Genus Cerdocyon
 * Cerdocyon thous - Crab-eating Fox (6 subspecies)
 * Genus Chrysocyon
 * Chrysocyon brachyurus - Maned Wolf
 * Genus Cuon
 * Cuon alpinus - Dhole (3 subspecies)
 * Genus Dusicyon
 * Dusicyon australis - Falkland Islands Wolf
 * Genus Lycalopex
 * Lycalopex culpaeus - Culpeo (6 subspecies) was in Pseudalopex genus
 * Lycalopex fulvipes - Darwin's Fox was in Pseudalopex genus
 * Lycalopex griseus - South American Gray Fox new article
 * Lycalopex gymnocercus - Pampas Fox (5 subspecies) was in Pseudalopex genus
 * Lycalopex sechurae - Sechuran Fox new article
 * Lycalopex vetulus - Hoary Fox was in Pseudalopex genus
 * Genus Lycaon
 * Lycaon pictus - African Wild Dog (5 subspecies)
 * Genus Nyctereutes
 * Nyctereutes procyonoides - Raccoon Dog (5 subspecies)
 * Genus Otocyon
 * Otocyon megalotis - Bat-eared Fox (2 subspecies)
 * Genus Speothos
 * Speothos venaticus - Bush Dog (3 subspecies)
 * Genus Urocyon
 * Urocyon cinereoargenteus - Gray Fox (16 subspecies)
 * Urocyon littoralis - Island Fox (6 subspecies)

I will hold off for a few days for comments. Since I'm posting this in multiple places, please contact me on my talk page if you have any concerns. I'll wait a week to give folks time to comment. -


 * That is good Enlil Ninlil (talk) 12:02, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Heh... I forgot to sign that. That was over a week ago now, and I'm in the process of updating the Pseudalopex species to be Lycalopex. - UtherSRG (talk) 16:51, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Name
Hi. The sentence "It is also known as the Chiloé Zorro or Zorro Chilote in Spanish and..." looks unclear for me, and I replaced it to "It is also known as the Chiloé Zorro (or zorro chilote in Spanish) and...", but it was reverted by. Maybe, I didn't wrote properly, but the point is that the Spanish name is only zorro chilote (common noun, without capitalization) and not Chiloé Zorro... Bye. Lin linao (talk) 00:57, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Like I said on my talk page: Consistency of capitalizing species common names. If you don't think the name is correct, remove it. - UtherSRG (talk) 08:39, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Size of the real SA Gray
This page says, "Darwin's Fox has a dark brown coat with red areas on its head and face, and it has shorter legs than the mainland foxes, and weighs 2-4 kg, much smaller than the L. griseus which weighs between 5-10 kg"; but the page for L. griseus says L. griseus masses 4 kg (just like Darwin's). This is a contradiction —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.93.59.214 (talk) 10:39, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Species numbers
The section "Ecology" lists the population as being 50 on the mainland and 200 on Chiloe, while "Conservation Status" claims 227 on mainland and 412 on Chiloe. This needs to be cleared up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chillidobe (talk • contribs) 01:42, 29 August 2019 (UTC)