Mustela nigripes Audubon and Bachman 1851

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 616

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11345692

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A7BC4034-7976-33CE-643F-02225AE87F42

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scientific name

Mustela nigripes Audubon and Bachman 1851
status

 

Mustela nigripes Audubon and Bachman 1851 View in CoL

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].

Vernacular Names: Black-footed Ferret.

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

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered, except where listed as an Experimental Non Essential Population in portions of Arizona, Colorado, Montana, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming ( USA); IUCN – Extinct in the Wild.

Discussion: Reviewed by Hillman and Clark (1980) and Anderson (1977). Youngman (1982) and Abramov (1999) placed nigripes in the subgenus Putorius . Anderson (1977) and Kurtén and Anderson (1980) suggested that nigripes and eversmanii may be conspecific.

ESA

Universidade de São Paulo

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Mustelidae

Genus

Mustela

Loc

Mustela nigripes Audubon and Bachman 1851

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Mustela nigripes

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