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curtailed fox

noun

Etymology

Coined in 1904 by zoologist Daniel Giraud Elliot.

Definitions

  1. A San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica).

    • Elliot (1905: 385) provided a common name for Vulpes mutica, the curtailed fox. Elliot was the first to match the specific epithet gender with the generic gender: V. mutica rather than V. muticus.

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