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I've never accepted the Red Fox split, but where are are the pure European animals located, and what fox populations are hybrids? Which are pure American?

 

This paper might be of interest:
Nuclear Genetic Analysis of the Red Fox Across its Trans-Pacific Range

It compares Red fox genes across the species range and though it is not unlikely that they indeed present a distinct species. There has however been extensive hybridization in the past, when and how this mixing occured is still unclear. The introduction of English foxes to east USA is also briefly discussed, but that stands apart from the main hybridization story.

 

Question. So if this taxonomy is correct, and it certainly makes sense to me, then which subspecies is native to the Sunda Islands? I mean obviously the ones in Australia are C. d. dingo and the ones in New Guinea are C. d. hallstromi but what about the ones on the Southeast Asia islands like Thailand?

 

Oh gosh dang it. You're right. I don't know what I was thinking, if I meant a to type a different country or if for a second I thought Thailand was an island. Regardless that's an "oopsie" on my part.

 

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pale fox (Vulpes pallida) - ZooChat
pale fox (Vulpes pallida) - ZooChat

 

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