Mustela putorius Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: W. Christopher Wozencraft
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Mustelidae
Mustela
Mustela putorius

description: <i>Mustela putorius</i> Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:46. TYPE LOCALITY: "inter Europae rupes et lapidum acervos", restricted by Thomas (1911a) to " Scania, S. Sweden." DISTRIBUTION: Europe (excluding Ireland and most of Scandinavia), east to the Ural Mtns. SYNONYMS: <i>ambigua</i> Mearns, 1897; <i>angustifrons</i> Howell, 1902; <i>bicolor</i> Gray, 1837; <i>gracilis</i> Merriam, 1890; <i>interrupta</i> Rafinesque, 1820; <i>larvatus</i> Hodgson, 1849; <i>leucoparia</i> Merriam, 1890; <i>lucasona</i> Merriam, 1890; <i>microdon</i> Howell, 1906; <i>mupurita</i> Müller, 1776; <i>olimpica</i> Elliot, 1899; <i>phenax</i> Merriam, 1890; <i>putida</i> Cuvier, 1798; <i>quaterlinearis</i> Winans, 1859; <i>ringens</i> Merriams, 1890; <i>saxatalis</i> Merriam, 1890; <i>striata</i> Shaw, 1800; <i>tenuis</i> Howell, 1902; <i>texensis</i> Merriam, 1890; <i>tibetanus</i> Horsfield, 1851; <i>zorilla</i> Schreber, 1776. COMMENTS: Reviewed by Heptner (in Heptner and Naumov, 1967). Probable ancestor of domestic ferret, <i>furo</i> (Rempe, 1970; Volobuev, 1971). Youngman (1982) placed <i>putorius</i> in the subgenus <i>Putorius.</i> Pocock (19366) and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1966) considered <i>eversmannii</i> and <i>putorius</i> conspecific; however, Ognev (1931), Stroganov (1962), and Heptner (in Heptner and Naumov, 1967), recognized them as distinct species.
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 pages 323-324, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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