Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Parent taxon: Mustelinae according to C. J. Law et al. 2018
See also Baryshnikov 2009, Baskin 1998, Bjork 1970, Carroll 1988, Gray 1825, Hay 1902, Kurten 1968, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Linnaeus 1758, Marmi et al. 2004, Schultz and Howard 1935, Seymour 2004, Valenciano et al. 2018 and Werdelin and Peigne 2010
Sister taxa: Dinogale, Lartetictis, Legionarictis, Mustelini, Neogale, Tisisthenes
Subtaxa: Mustela (Lutreola) Mustela (Putorius) Mustela aistoodonnivalis Mustela altaica Mustela erminea Mustela eversmanni Mustela furo Mustela haidarum Mustela itatsi Mustela jacksoni Mustela kathiah Mustela lutreola Mustela meltoni Mustela nigripes Mustela nivalis Mustela nudipes Mustela ogygia Mustela pachygnatha Mustela palaeattica Mustela palermina Mustela praenivalis Mustela putorius Mustela rexroadensis Mustela richardsonii Mustela sibirica Mustela spelaea Mustela strigidorsa
Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Austria (1 collection), Belgium (1), Canada (4: Alberta, Yukon), China (4), the Czech Republic (1), France (4), Georgia (1), Germany (8), Greece (4), Hungary (15), Italy (5), Japan (3), Mexico (1), Monaco (1), the Netherlands (1), Romania (9), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (3), United States (37: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming)
• Blancan of United States (12: Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Washington)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1), France (1), Hungary (2), Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Armenia (1), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (1), Hungary (4), Poland (2), Ukraine (2)
• Hemphillian of United States (4: Nebraska, Oregon)
• Miocene of China (1), Greece (2), Moldova (3), United States (5: California, Oregon)
Total: 150 collections including 193 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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