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Vulpes pallida (Pale Fox)

Synonyms: Canis pallidus

Wikipedia Abstract

The pale fox is a species of fox found in the band of African Sahel from Senegal in the west to Sudan in the east. It is one of the least studied of all canid species, in part due to its remote habitat and its sandy coat that blends in well with the desert like terrain. There are five recognized subspecies: \n* Vulpes pallida pallida \n* Vulpes pallida cyrenaica \n* Vulpes pallida edwardsi \n* Vulpes pallida harterti \n* Vulpes pallida oertzeni
View Wikipedia Record: Vulpes pallida

Infraspecies

Vulpes pallida cyrenaica
Vulpes pallida edwardsi
Vulpes pallida harterti
Vulpes pallida oertzeni
Vulpes pallida pallida

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data.
ED Score: 5.45
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  6.173 lbs (2.80 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  75 grams
Male Weight [3]  23.369 lbs (10.60 kg)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Vertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  20 %
Diet - Endothermic [2]  50 %
Diet - Plants [2]  20 %
Diet - Vertibrates [2]  10 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  10 months 13 days
Male Maturity [3]  9 months 4 days
Gestation [1]  52 days
Litter Size [1]  4
Litters / Year [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  16 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  26 inches (65 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
East Sudanian savanna Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Sahelian Acacia savanna Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
West Sudanian savanna Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Dinder National Park II 2088300 Sudan  
Radom National Park II   Sudan  

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ctenocephalides felis strongylus[5]
Dirofilaria immitis (Heartworm)[6]

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
♦ 2Hamish 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
♦ 3Nathan 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
♦ 4Myers, 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
♦ 5International Flea Database
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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