Mustela lutreola Linnaeus 1761

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Mustela lutreola Linnaeus 1761

Mustela lutreola Linnaeus 1761 , Fauna Suecica, 2nd ed.: 5.

Type Locality: "Finlandiae aquolis", restricted by Matschie (1912) to "Südwest-Finnland." .

Vernacular Names: European Mink.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Mustela lutreola subsp. lutreola Linnaeus 1761

Subspecies Mustela lutreola subsp. biedermanni Matschie 1912

Subspecies Mustela lutreola subsp. binominata Ellerman and Morrison-Scott 1951

Subspecies Mustela lutreola subsp. cylipena Matschie 1912

Subspecies Mustela lutreola subsp. novikovi Ellerman and Morrison-Scott 1951

Subspecies Mustela lutreola subsp. transsylvanica Éhik 1932

Subspecies Mustela lutreola subsp. turovi Kuznetsov in Novikov 1939

Distribution: Belarus, Estonia, France, Latvia, Romania, Russia (Europe to the Urals), NE Spain. Formerly Germany, Poland, Austria, Czech Republic, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria.

Conservation: IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: Youngman (1982, 1990) and Abramov (1999) placed lutreola in subgenus Lutreola . Revised by Matschie (1912), Novikov (1939), and Youngman (1982, 1990). Occasional hybrids occur between lutreola and putorius ( Ognev, 1931; Tumanov and Abramov, 2002; Youngman, 1982). Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951).