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Canis is a genus, and I don't think any of the animals known as "foxes" are classified in genus Canis. But yeah.
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So the genus is vulpes but the family is the broader Canidae which makes them canines at once remove. As well Foxes have 38 chromosomes while dogs have 78.
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Dogs have evolved since domestication but their cousin the dingo is still the same species.
As Gracchus noted, dingos and domestic dogs are classed as subspecies. That means that there is considerable difference between them. Also, it doesn't necessarily mean that every breed of dog is now the same species or that they are the same species as dingos. Classification schemes can become difficult to change and can easily lag behind the biological reality.
For instance, there is considerable evidence that domesticated dogs are no longer a single species but are now, at least, 4 different species: 3. C Vila` , P Savolainen, JE. Maldonado, IR. Amorim, JE. Rice, RL. Honeycutt, KA. Crandall, JLundeberg, RK. Wayne, Multiple and Ancient Origins of the Domestic Dog Science 276: 1687-1689, 13 JUNE 1997. Dogs no longer one species but 4 according to the genetics. http://www.idir.net/~wolf2dog/wayne1.htm
What you would need to do is put a population of dingoes with domestic dogs and see if they freely interbreed and, if they do, whether the F1 hybrids (first generation dingo-dog crosses) are interfertile.
Bottom line, you can't just go by the name. You need to check the biological reality.
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