🐺Kit fox
Le Renard nain (Vulpes macrotis), kit fox en anglais américain, est une espèce de renards appartenant au genre Vulpes et à la famille des canidés. Endémique d'Amérique du Nord, il est présent dans le Sud-Ouest des États-Unis et dans le Nord et le Centre du Mexique. C'est la plus petite espèce de Canidés de ce continent. Certains mammalogistes le classent comme conspécifique avec le renard véloce (Vulpes velox), mais des études de phylogénétique moléculaire semblent démontrer que les deux espèces sont bel et bien distinctes.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2014.
- Body mass
- 2.09 kg
- Body length
- 0.51 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 20 years
Everything we know about the Kit fox
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass2.09 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 2.5 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.51 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan20 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 16 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length6.1 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity1.0 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation54 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 54 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 4COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 4AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range8.1 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density0.19 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l2.1 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Kit fox yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCarnivora
- ›familyCanidae
- ›genusVulpes
- ›speciesVulpes macrotis
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderCaniformia
- familyCanidae
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderCaniformia
- familyCanidae
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