Mustela erminea Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Mustelidae
Mustela
Mustela erminea

description: Mustela erminea Linnaeus 1758
Mustela erminea Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 46.
Type Locality: "Europa and Asia frigidiore; hyeme praefertim in alpinis regionibus nivea".
Vernacular Names: Ermine.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. erminea Linnaeus 1758
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. aestiva Kerr 1792
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. alascensis Merriam 1896
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. anguinae Hall 1932
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. arctica Merriam 1896
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. augustidens Brown 1908
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. bangsi Hall 1945
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. celenda Hall 1944
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. cigognanii Bonaparte 1838
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. fallenda Hall 1945
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. ferghanae Thomas 1895
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. gulosa Hall 1945
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. haidarum Preble 1898
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. hibernica Thomas and Barrett-Hamilton 1895
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. initis Hall 1945
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. invicta Hall 1945
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. kadiacensis Merriam 1896
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. kaneii Baird 1857
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. karaginensis Jurgenson 1936
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. lymani Hollister 1912
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. martinoi Ellerman and Morrison-Scott 1951
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. minima Cavazza 1912
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. mongolica Ognev 1928
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. muricus Bangs 1899
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. nippon Cabrera 1913
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. ognevi Jurgenson 1932
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. olympica Hall 1945
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. polaris Barrett-Hamilton 1904
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. richardsonii Bonaparte 1838
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. ricinae Miller 1907
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. salva Hall 1944
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. seclusa Hall 1944
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. semplei Sutton and Hamilton 1932
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. stabilis Barrett-Hamilton 1904
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. streatori Merriam 1896
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. teberdina Korneev 1941
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. tobolica Ognev 1923
Distribution: Circumboreal, tundra and forested regions of Palearctic. Afghanistan, Algeria, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan (C Honshu), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand (introduced), Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, USA (C California, N New Mexico, N Iowa and Maryland).
Conservation: CITES – Appendix III (India) as M. erminea ferghanae; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Revised by Eger (1990). Reviewed by C. M. King (1983). Youngman (1982) and Abramov (1999) placed erminea in the subgenus Mustela. Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), Hall (1951, 1981), and C. M. King (1983).
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, pp. 532-628 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 613, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519