#0488 · 🦊 mammals

Kit Fox

🇳🇱 Grootoorkitvos ·Vulpes macrotis

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © markc666 · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © José G. Martínez-Fonseca · CC BY-NC 4.0
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what is it?

The kit fox ( Vulpes macrotis ) is a fox species of North America. Its range is primarily in the Southwestern United States and northern and central Mexico. Some mammalogists classify it as conspecific with the swift fox, V. velox , but molecular systematics imply that the two species are distinct. It has also been called an American Fennec fox due to its large ears.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,909iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
1,909 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Clinton Hart Merriam in 1888 (138 years ago).