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title: "Swift Fox"
description: "Vulpes velox — Mammiferi. The swift fox (Vulpes velox) is a small light orange-tan fox around the size of a domestic cat found in the western Great Plains grasslands of North America, such as Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/swift-fox
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Swift Fox

> Vulpes velox — Mammiferi. The swift fox (Vulpes velox) is a small light orange-tan fox around the size of a domestic cat found in the western Great Plains grasslands of North America, such as Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma  and Texas.

- Scientific name: *Vulpes velox*
- Category: `mammals` (Mammiferi)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Prati e campi)
- iNaturalist observations: 542
- Wikidata: [Q263706](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q263706)
- iNaturalist taxon: [42066](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/42066)

## Names

- en: Swift Fox
- de: Swiftfuchs
- es: Zorra desértica
- fr: Renard Véloce
- nl: Kitvos
- pt: Raposa-orelhuda
- pl: Lis płowy

## Countries with the most observations

US (360), CA (48)

## Summary

The swift fox (Vulpes velox) is a small light orange-tan fox around the size of a domestic cat found in the western Great Plains grasslands of North America, such as Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma  and Texas. It also lives in southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta in Canada, where it was previously extirpated. It is closely related to the kit fox (V. macrotis) and some mammalogists classify them as conspecific. However, molecular systematics imply that the two species are distinct. Interbreeding between the two species does occur where their ranges overlap (eastern New Mexico and western Texas…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_fox

## Photo

![Swift Fox](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/swift-fox/medium.jpg)

Photo: Abby Benson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/171110987

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/swift-fox?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).