The Southern California kit fox (Vulpes macrotis macrotis) or long-eared kit fox is an extinct subspecies of kit fox native to Southern California and northern Baja California.
Taxonomy
The kit fox was described by Clinton Hart Merriam in 1888 based on a specimen apparently killed in Riverside, California, by Frank Stephens. He believed kit foxes were a species that originated in Mexico and extended northwards to California.
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