Mustela nigripes (Audubon and Bachman, 1851)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 323

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scientific name	Mustela nigripes (Audubon and Bachman, 1851)
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Mustela nigripes (Audubon and Bachman, 1851) View in CoL . Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, 2:297.

TYPE LOCALITY: "lower waters of the Platte River", restricted by Hayden (1863: 138) to "Fort Laramie" [Wyoming, USA] .

DISTRIBUTION: Formerly, S Alberta and Saskatchewan ( Canada) south to Arizona, Oklahoma, and NW Texas ( USA). Viable populations now only in captivity.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Hillman and Clark (1980, Mammalian Species, 126) and Anderson (1977). Youngman (1982) placed nigripes in the subgenus Putorius . Anderson (1977) and Kurtén and Anderson (1980) suggested that nigripes and eversmannii may be conspecific.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Carnivora
Family	Mustelidae
Genus	Mustela