Urocyon cinereoargenteus floridanus
Gray Fox
Urocyon cinereoargenteus floridanus: Taxonomy | Info | Photographs
- Kingdom: Metazoa ((=Animalia) multicellular animals)
- Phylum: Chordata (chordates)
- Class: Mammalia (mammals)
- Order: Carnivora (carnivores)
- Family: Canidae (canines)
- Genus: Urocyon
- Species: Urocyon cinereoargenteus floridanus
- Common Names: Gray Fox, Grey Fox (of the southeastern United States)
There are 7 subspecies of Gray Fox north of Mexico:
- Urocyon cinereoargenteus borealis: New England and southern Ontario
- Urocyon cinereoargenteus californicus: from southwestern California to northern Baja California
- Urocyon cinereoargenteus cinereoargenteus: from southern Massachusetts and Connecticut west to Lake Michigan and Illinois; south to central South Carolina; and west to the Mississippi River
- Urocyon cinereoargenteus floridanus: from southern South Carolina south to Florida and west to eastern Texas; it occurs along the Gulf Coast excluding Louisiana
- Urocyon cinereoargenteus ocythous: Wisconsin and extreme western Illinois; from Missouri and Arkansas west to Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and extreme southern Manitoba and Quebec
- Urocyon cinereoargenteus scottii: from western Texas north through northern Colorado and Utah to the southern half of Nevada; and from California east of the Sierra Nevada southeast in Mexico to Chihuahua
- Urocyon cinereoargenteus townsendi: in northern California and western Oregon
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Urocyon cinereoargenteus floridanus
Tallahassee Museum of History and Natural Science
Tallahassee, FL
February, 2001
Photo contributed by Josh Hillman
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Urocyon cinereoargenteus floridanus