Genus
Urocyon (Gray foxes)
Urocyon cinereoargenteus. Photo: (c) Kim Cabrera, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
The genus Urocyon (from the Greek word for “tailed dog”) is a genus that contains two (or possibly three; see next paragraph) living Western Hemisphere foxes in the family Canidae; the gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) and the closely related island fox (Urocyon littoralis), which is a dwarf cousin of the gray fox; as well as one fossil species, Urocyon progressus.
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