Ezo red fox
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phylum | Chordata | The Ezo red fox (Vulpes vulpes schrencki) is a subspecies of red fox widely distributed in Hokkaido, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands and the surrounding islands of Japan. The Ezo red fox's formal name, Kitakitsune (北狐), was given to the subspecies by Kyukichi Kishida when he studied them in Sakhalin in 1924.
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class | Mammalia | |
infraclass | Eutheria | |
order | Carnivora | |
suborder | Caniformia | |
family | Canidae | |
genus | Vulpes | |
species | V. vulpes | |
SUBspecies | V. v. shrencki |