Mustela vison Schreber 1777
Creators: name: W. Christopher Wozencraft
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Mustelidae
Mustela
Mustela vison

description: <i>Mustela vison</i> Schreber, 1777. Die Säugethiere, 3(19):pl. 127,B[1777); text, 3(26):463[1777]. TYPE LOCALITY: "Man findet das Vison in Canada un Pensilvanien". DISTRIBUTION: North America from Alaska and Canada through all of USA except SW deserts. Introduced to Iceland, NC Europe, British Isis, Norway, Belarussia, Baltic States, Spain, and Siberia. SYNONYMS: <i>antiquus</i> Loomis, 1911; <i>borealis</i> Brass, 1911; <i>energumenos</i> Bangs, 1896; <i>evagor</i> Hall, 1932; <i>evergladensis</i> Hamilton, 1948; <i>ingens</i> Osgood, 1900; <i>lacustris</i> Preble, 1902; <i>letifera</i> Hollister, 1915; <i>lowii</i> Anderson, 1945; <i>lutensis</i> Bangs, 1898; <i>lutreocephala</i> Harlan, 1825; <i>macrodon</i> Prentiss, 1903; <i>melampeplus</i> Elliot, 1903; <i>mink</i> Peale and Palisot de Beauvois, 1796; <i>minx</i> Turton, 1800; <i>nesolestes</i> Heller, 1909; <i>nigrescens</i> Audubon and Bachman, 1854; <i>rufa</i> Smith, 1858; <i>vulgivagus</i> Bangs, 1895; <i>winingus</i> Baird, 1857. COMMENTS: Manville (1966) demonstrated that <i>macrodon</i> is conspecific, although Kurtén and Anderson (1980) recognized it as a distinct species. Hall (1951), Heptner and Yurgenson (1967), and Hollister (1913a) considered <i>vison</i> closely related to <i>lutreola,</i> however analyses by Graphodatskii et al. (1976) and Youngman (1982) supported <i>vison</i> to be one of the earliest offshoots of the <i>Mustela</i> lineage. Youngman (1982) placed <i>vison</i> in the subgenus Vison.
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 324, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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