Mustela nivalis Linnaeus 1766
Creators: name: W. Christopher Wozencraft
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Mustelidae
Mustela
Mustela nivalis

description: <i>Mustela nivalis</i> Linnaeus, 1766. Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1:69. TYPE LOCALITY: " Westrobothnia " [Sweden]. DISTRIBUTION: The Palearctic (excl. Ireland, the Arabian Peninsula, and Arctic Isis); Japan; the Nearctic in Alaska (USA), Canada, and USA, south to Wyoming and North Carolina. Introduced to New Zealand; see Corbet and Hill (1980). SYNONYMS: <i>africana</i> Gray, 1865; <i>albipes</i> Mina Palumbo, 1868; <i>allegheniensis</i> Rhoads, 1901; <i>alpinus</i> Burg, 1920; <i>atlas</i> Barrett-Hamilton, 1904; <i>boccamela</i> Bechstein, 1800; <i>campestris</i> Jackson, 1913; <i>caraftensis</i> Kishida, 1936; <i>caucasicus</i> Barrett-Hamilton, 1900; <i>corsicanus</i> Cavazza, 1908; <i>dinniki</i> Satunin, 1907; <i>dombrowskii</i> Matschie, 1901; <i>eskimo</i> Stone, 1900; <i>fulva</i> Mina Palumbo, 1868; <i>gale</i> Pallas, 1811; <i>galinthias</i> Bate, 1906; <i>italicus</i> BarrettHamilton, 1900; <i>kamtschatica</i> Dybowski, 1922; <i>major</i> Fatio, 1905; <i>meridionalis</i> Costa, 1869; <i>minor</i> Nilsson, 1820; <i>minutus</i> Pomel, 1853; <i>monticola</i> Cavazza, 1908; <i>mosanensis</i> Mori, 1927; <i>namiyei</i> Kuroda, 1921; <i>nikolskii</i> Smirnov, 1899; <i>numidicus</i> Pucheran, 1855; <i>pallidus</i> Barrett-Hamilton, 1900; <i>punctata</i> Domaniewski, 1926; <i>pusillus</i> Fatio, 1869; <i>pygmaeus</i> J. A. Allen, 1903; <i>rixosus</i> Bangs, 1896; <i>russelliana</i> Thomas, 1911; <i>siculus</i> Barrett-Hamilton, 1900; <i>stoliczkana</i> Blanford, 1877; <i>subpalmata</i> Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1833; <i>tonkinensis</i> Björkegren, 1942; <i>trettaui</i> Kleinschmidt, 1937; <i>typicus</i> Barrett-Hamilton, 1900; <i>vulgaris</i> Erxleben, 1777; <i>yesoidsuna</i> Kishida, 1936. COMMENTS: Reviewed by Reichstein (1957) and van Zyll de Jong (1992), who considered <i>Putorius rixosus</i> and <i>Mustela nivalis</i> conspecific. Youngman (1982) placed <i>nivalis</i> in the subgenus <i>Mustela.</i>
description: Published as part of <i>W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 323, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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