Chiloe fox
English
editEtymology
editAfter Chiloé, the Chilean island to which the foxes are endemic. The name used by Charles Darwin.
Noun
editChiloe fox (plural Chiloe foxes)
- Synonym of Darwin's fox
- 1837, Charles Darwin, Transmutation of Species: Notebook B[1]:
- According to this view animals on separate islands ought to become different if kept long enough apart with slightly differing circumstances. Now [e.g.,] Galapagos Tortoises, Mocking birds, Falkland Fox, Chiloe fox, English and Irish Hare.