Mustela erminea Linnaeus 1758 (stoat)

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

Belongs to Mustela according to J. Marmi et al. 2004

See also Kurten 1968, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Linnaeus 1758, Mead and Mead 1989, Seymour 2004 and Thomas 1911

Sister taxa: Mustela (Lutreola), Mustela (Putorius), Mustela aistoodonnivalis, Mustela altaica, 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 Canada (1: Alberta collection), Germany (1), Japan (1), the Netherlands (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (10: Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Utah, Virginia)

Total: 17 collections each including a single occurrence

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