AnimaliaCarnivoraCanidaeGutiérrezEliécer E.Marinho-FilhoJaderThe mammalian faunas endemic to the Cerrado and the CaatingaZookeys1012017201764410515710.3897/zookeys.644.10827 Lycalopex vetulus (Lund, 1842)Distribution.

Lycalopex vetulus is endemic to the Cerrado and the Caatinga, and has been recorded in the Brazilian states of Bahia, Ceará, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Piauí, São Paulo, and in the Distrito Federal (Costa and Courtenay 2003, Courtenay et al. 2006, Dalponte 2009, Bocchiglieri et al. 2010, Ribeiro et al. 2010, Olifiers and Delciellos 2013; see also Supplementary Material of Bubadué et al. 2016). The species has also been observed in the Brazilian state of Tocantins (Carmignotto and Aires 2011).

Conservation status.

The red list of the IUCN ver. 3.1 assigned the category “Least Concern” to Lycalopex vetulus (see Dalponte and Courtenay 2008). The species appears in the official list of threatened species of Brazil with the category “Vulnerable” (ICMBIO-MMA 2016).

 CostaCHNCourtenayO (2003) A new record of the hoary fox Pseudalopex vetulus in north Brazil. Mammalia 67: 593–594. https://doi.org/10.1515/mamm-2003-0416 CourtenayOMacdonaldDWGillighamSGAlmeidaGDiasR (2006) First observations on South America’s largely insectivorous canid: the hoary fox (Pseudalopex vetulus). Journal of Zoology (London) 268:45–54. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2005.00021.x DalponteJC (2009) Lycalopex vetulus (Carnivora: Canidae). Mammalian Species 847: 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1644/847.1 BocchiglieriAMendonçaAFHenriquesRPB (2010) Composition and diversity of medium and large size mammals in the Cerrado of central Brazil. Biota Neotropica 10(3): 169–176. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1676-06032010000300019 RibeiroRBezerraAMRMarinho-FilhoJS (2010) Coleções científicas e conservação de mamíferos do Cerrado. Pp. 413–436. In: Diniz IR, Marinho-Filho JS, Machado RB, Cavalcanti R (Eds) Conhecimento científico quantitativo como subsídio para ações de conservação. Thesaurus. Brasília, DF. OlifiersNDelciellosAC (2013) New record of Lycalopex vetulus (Carnivora, Canidae) in northeastern Brazil. Oecologia Australis 17(4): 533–537. https://doi.org/10.4257/oeco.2013.1704.08 BubaduéJMCáceresNCarvalhoRSMeloroC (2015) Ecogeographical variation in skull shape of South-American canids: abiotic or biotic processes? Evolutionary Biology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-015-9362-3 CarmignottoAPAiresCC (2011) Mamíferos não voadores (Mammalia) da Estação Ecológica Serra Geral do Tocantins. Biota Neotropica 11: 313–328. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1676-06032011000100029 DalponteJCourtenayO (2008) Pseudalopex vetulus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T6926A12815527. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T6926A12815527.en [Downloaded 15 October 2016] ICMBio-MMA (Instituto Chico Mendes, Ministério do Meio Ambiemte) (2016) Executive summary of Brazil red book of threatened species of fauna. Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade. http://www.icmbio.gov.br/portal/images/stories/comunicacao/publicacoes/publicacoes-diversas/dcom_sumario_executivo_livro_vermelho_ed_2016.pdf [Accessed on December 19th, 2016]