Species profile—Vulpes vulpes (red fox)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Canidae (dogs and foxes) → Vulpes vulpes (red fox)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Canidae (dogs and foxes)
- Scientific name
- Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Common name
- red fox
- Type reference
- Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Tom. 1 824 pp.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 1071
- Alternate name(s)
- European red fox
European fox
fox - Biosecurity Act 2014 (BIO) status
- Restricted Matter
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Introduced
- Pest status
- Feral Animal
- Species environment
- Terrestrial
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1071
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
