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Lycalopex vetulus (Hoary Fox)

Synonyms: Canis vetulus; Pseudalopex vetulus

Wikipedia Abstract

The hoary fox (Lycalopex vetulus), also called raposinha-do-campo (Portuguese for "meadow fox") or the hoary zorro, is a species of zorro or "false" fox endemic to Brazil. Unlike many other foxes, it feeds primarily on small invertebrates such as insects.
View Wikipedia Record: Lycalopex vetulus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
9
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.95
EDGE Score: 1.37
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  11.795 lbs (5.35 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  140 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Ectothermic [3]  30 %
Diet - Endothermic [3]  30 %
Diet - Fruit [3]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  10 %
Diet - Plants [3]  10 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  9 months 6 days
Male Maturity [2]  9 months 4 days
Gestation [4]  50 days
Litter Size [5]  4
Litters / Year [5]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  13 years
Nocturnal [6]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  25 inches (64 cm)
Weaning [4]  4 months

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Cerrado Brazil No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Angiostrongylus vasorum (French heartworm)[5]
Trypanosoma cruzi[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4Lycalopex vetulus (Carnivora: Canidae), JULIO C. DALPONTE, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 847:1–7 (2009)
♦ 53.9 Hoary fox, Pseudalopex vetulus, J. Dalponte and O. Courtenay, Sillero-Zubiri, C., Hoffmann, M. and Macdonald, D.W. (eds). 2004. Canids: Foxes, Wolves, Jackals and Dogs. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. x + 430 pp.
♦ 6Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 7Disponibilidade de frutos e a dieta de Lycalopex vetulus (Carnivora - Canidae) em um cerrado de Mato Grosso, Brasil, JULIO CESAR DALPONTE e EDSON DE SOUZA LIMA, Revta brasil. Bot., São Paulo, V.22, n.2(suplemento), p.325-332, out. 1999
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0