Conepatus cf. semistriatus (Boddaert)

VOSS, ROBERT S., 2003, A New Species of Thomasomys (Rodentia: Muridae) from Eastern Ecuador, with Remarks on Mammalian Diversity and Biogeography in the Cordillera Oriental, American Museum Novitates 3421, pp. 1-48 : 19

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2003)421<0001:ANSOTR>2.0.CO;2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4734815
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scientific name	Conepatus cf. semistriatus (Boddaert)
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Conepatus cf. semistriatus (Boddaert) View in CoL

SPECIMENS COLLECTED: None.

OTHER MATERIAL: I examined a single specimen ( AMNH 66719 About AMNH ) that was collected by H.E. Anthony at 4145 m on Cerro Antisana in 1923. Other material that I have not seen (Diego Tirira, personal commun.) includes one specimen from 4200 m on Cerro Antisana ( QCAZ 0638 View Materials ), and another from 2800 m near Cuyuja (E of Papallacta on the road to Baeza; QCAZ 0726 View Materials ) .

TAXONOMY: Ecuadorean hognosed skunks are currently referred to Conepatus semistriatus (e.g., by Cabrera, 1958; Kipp, 1965; Wozencraft, 1993), but no substantive analysis of character data is apparently available to justify this convention. 5 Van Gelder’s (1968) detailed analysis of variation in cranial and pelage traits within a very large Uruguayan sample of Conepatus could serve as the basis for a muchneeded revision of this genus in South America.

REMARKS: Although none were seen in the course of our fieldwork, skunks are said to be common in local páramo habitats ( Black, 1982).

References

Black, J. 1982. Los paramos del Antisana. Revista Geografica 17: 25 - 52.

Cabrera, A. 1958 ['' 1957 '']. Catalogo de los mamiferos de America del Sur. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales '' Bernardino Rivadavia' ' (Ciencias Zoologicas) 4 (1): 1 - 307.

Kipp, V. H. 1965. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Gattung Conepatus Molina, 1782. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde 30: 193 - 232.

Van Gelder, R. G. 1968. The genus Conepatus (Mammalia, Mustelidae): variation within a population. American Museum Novitates 2322: 1 - 37.

Wozencraft, W. C. 1993. Order Carnivora. In D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder (editors), Mammal species of the world, 2 nd ed.: 279 - 348. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.