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Vulpes rueppellii (Rüppell's Fox)

Synonyms: Canis rueppellii; Canis ruppelii (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Rüppell's fox (Vulpes rueppellii), also spelled Rueppell's fox, is a species of fox living in North Africa, the Middle East, and southwestern Asia. It is named after the German naturalist Eduard Rüppell. This fox is also called the sand fox, but this terminology is confusing because the corsac fox (V. corsac) and the Tibetan sand fox (V. ferrilata) are also known as "sand foxes".
View Wikipedia Record: Vulpes rueppellii

Infraspecies

Vulpes rueppellii caesia (Sand fox)
Vulpes rueppellii cyrenaica (Sand fox)
Vulpes rueppellii rueppellii (Sand fox)
Vulpes rueppellii sabaea (Sand fox)
Vulpes rueppellii zarudnyi (Sand fox)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
12
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.55
EDGE Score: 1.52
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.748 lbs (1.70 kg)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  20 %
Diet - Endothermic [2]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  9 months 15 days
Male Maturity [3]  9 months 15 days
Gestation [4]  52 days
Litter Size [5]  2
Litters / Year [4]  1
Maximum Longevity [5]  14 years
Nocturnal [6]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  19 inches (49 cm)

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Aquila nipalensis (Steppe Eagle)[4]
Bubo ascalaphus (Pharaoh Eagle-Owl)[3]
Bubo bubo (Eurasian Eagle-Owl)[4]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 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
♦ 37.3 Ruppell’s fox, Vulpes rueppellii, F. Cuzin and D.M. Lenain, 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.
♦ 4Vulpes rueppelli, Serge Larivière and Philip J. Seddon, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 678, pp. 1–5 (2001)
♦ 5de 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
♦ 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
♦ 7International Flea Database
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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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