First record of Blanford’s Fox Vulpes cana (Blanford, 1877) from Iraq-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

First record of Blanford’s Fox Vulpes cana (Blanford, 1877) from Iraq

Published:2021-05-12 Issue:5 Volume:85 Page:412-416
ISSN:0025-1461
Container-title:Mammalia
language:en
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Author:

Ahmed Soran A.¹,Al-Sheikhly Omar F.²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Biology , College of Science, University of Sulaimani , Sulaimani , Kurdistan , Iraq

2. Department of Biology , College of Science, University of Baghdad , Baghdad , Iraq

Abstract

Abstract The Blanford’s Fox Vulpes cana (Blanford, 1877) is an enigmatic carnivore of Asia and East Africa with sporadic and disjunct distribution in the Middle East. It was suspected to occur in western Iraq, but no confirmed records have been made. In October 2020, the first confirmed occurrence of Blanford’s Fox was made during a camera-trap survey in Xoshk Mountain in northern Iraq (Kurdistan) and is described in this account.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Animal Science and Zoology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/mammalia-2020-0166/pdf

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