Description
Español: Zorro chilote en Ahuenco, comuna de Ancud, Chiloé, Chile
English: Darwin's fox in Ahuenco, Chiloe Island, Chile
Mapudungun: Paynengürü Chillwe lafkenmapu mew
Date Septiembre, 2006
Source http://www.flickr.com/photos/talleranay/266197818/
Author Fernando Bórquez Bórquez from Castro, Chile http://www.flickr.com/people/talleranay/
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pseudalopex_fulvipes-primer_plano.jpg

Darwin's fox or Darwin's Zorro (Lycalopex fulvipes) is a small Endangered canine from the genus Lycalopex. It is also known as the Zorro Chilote or Zorro de Darwin in Spanish and lives on Nahuelbuta National Park (Araucanía Region), the Valdivian Coastal Range (Los Ríos Region) in mainland Chile and Chiloé Island. Darwin's fox was first collected from San Pedro Island off the coast of Chile by the naturalist Charles Darwin in 1834. It was long held that Darwin's fox was a subspecies of the South American gray fox (L. griseus); however, the discovery of a small population of Darwin's fox on the mainland in Nahuelbuta National Park in 1990 and subsequent genetic analysis has clarified the fox's status as a unique species. Order: Carnivora, Family: Canidae, Synonyms: Vulpes fulvipes, Pseudalopex fulvipes.