Back

Desert Fox

Vulpes vulpes pusilla

Classification

Family
Canidae

The white-footed fox (Vulpes vulpes pusilla), also known as the desert fox, is a small, Asiatic subspecies of red fox which occurs throughout most of northwestern Indian subcontinent, Pakistan's desert districts from Rawalpindi to Rajasthan and Kutch in India, Baluchistan, southern Iran, and Iraq. It is mostly found on sand-hills or in the broad sandy beds of semi-dry rivers, and only very rarely in fields, and then in the vicinity of sandy tracts. Description Like the Turkmenian fox, the white-footed fox has a primitive, infantile skull compared to those of its northern cousins.

Distribution

(c) Sumeet Moghe, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC-BY-SA
Loading map…
Countries in the Picchu catalog
Germany · 3