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

description: <i>Mustela erminea</i> Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:46. TYPE LOCALITY: "Europa and Asia frigidiore; hyeme praefertim in alpinis regionibus nivea". DISTRIBUTION: Circumboreal, tundra and forested regions of Palearctic, south to the Pyrenees, alpine Slovenia, Alps, Caucasus, W Himalayas, and Xinjiang (China); N Mongolia, N China; and C Honshu (Japan); and, in the Nearctic south to C California, N New Mexico, N Iowa and Maryland (USA). Introduced to New Zealand. STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (India). SYNONYMS: <i>alascensis</i> Merriam, 1896; <i>algiricus</i> Thomas, 1895; <i>anguinae</i> Hall, 1932; <i>angustidens</i> Brown, 1908; <i>arcticus</i> Merriam, 1896; <i>audax</i> Barrett-Hamilton, 1904; <i>bangsi</i> Hall, 1945; <i>celenda</i> Hall, 1944; <i>cigognanii</i> Bonaparte, 1838; <i>fallendo</i> Hall, 1945; <i>ferghanae</i> Thomas, 1895; <i>gulosa</i> Hall, 1945; <i>haidarum</i> Preble, 1898; <i>herminea</i> Oken, 1816; <i>hibernicus</i> Thomas and Barrett-Hamilton, 1895; <i>imperii</i> Barrett-Hamilton, 1904; <i>initis</i> Hall, 1944; <i>invicta</i> Hall, 1945; <i>kadiacensis</i> Merriam, 1896; <i>kanei</i> G. M. Allen, 1914; <i>labiata</i> Degerbol, 1935; <i>leptus</i> Merriam, 1903; <i>lymani</i> Hollister, 1912; <i>microtis</i> J. A. Allen, 1903; <i>mortigena</i> Bangs, 1913; <i>muricus</i> Bangs, 1899; <i>nippon</i> Cabrera, 1913; <i>olympica</i> Hall, 1945; <i>polaris</i> Barrett-Hamilton, 1904; <i>pusilla</i> DeKay, 1842; <i>richardsonii</i> Bonaparte, 1838; <i>rixosa</i> Svihla and Svihla, 1932; <i>salva</i> Hall, 1944; <i>seclusa</i> Hall, 1944; <i>semplei</i> Sutton and Hamilton, 1932; <i>streatori</i> Merriam, 1896; <i>vulgaris</i> Griffith, 1827; <i>whiteheadi</i> Wroughton, 1908. COMMENTS: Revised by Eger (1990). Reviewed by C. M. King (1983, Mammalian Species, 195). Youngman (1982) placed <i>erminea</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 321, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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