The endangered San Joaquin kit fox ( " Vulpes macrotis mutica " ) and threatened California red-legged frog ( " Rana draytonii " ), California tiger salamander ( " Ambystoma californiense " ) and Alameda whipsnake ( " Masticophis lateralis " ) are present as well.
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Federal authorities in the United States use trapping as the primary means to control predators that prey on endangered species such as the San Joaquin kit fox ( " Vulpes macrotis mutica " ), California least tern ( " Sterna antillarum browni " ) and desert tortoise ( " Gopherus agassizii " ).
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The "'greater bilby "'( " Macrotis lagotis " ), often referred to simply as the "'bilby "'since the lesser bilby ( " Macrotis leucura " ) became extinct in the 1950s, is an Australian species of nocturnal omnivorous animal in the order Peramelemorphia.
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The "'greater bilby "'( " Macrotis lagotis " ), often referred to simply as the "'bilby "'since the lesser bilby ( " Macrotis leucura " ) became extinct in the 1950s, is an Australian species of nocturnal omnivorous animal in the order Peramelemorphia.
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However, hybrids between the two occur naturally where their ranges overlap, and some mammalogists classify the two as subspecies of a single species, usually treated as " Vulpes velox " ( with the swift fox being described as " V . velox velox " and the kit fox as " V . velox macrotis " ).
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The intermediate and upper watershed zones are also home to four federally listed faunal species the Alameda whipsnake ( " Masticophis lateralis " ), California red-legged frog ( " Rana aurora draytonii " ), San Joaquin kit fox ( " Vulpes macrotis mutica " ), and vernal pool fairy shrimp ( " Branchinecta lynchi " ).
