Mustela africana Desmarest 1818

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 : 613

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scientific name	Mustela africana Desmarest 1818
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Mustela africana Desmarest 1818 , Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed. 9: 376.

Type Locality: "Africa", type locality is in error, fixed by Cabrera (1957) as "arrabales de Belem, la antigua Pará." [ Brazil] .

Vernacular Names: Amazon Weasel.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Mustela africana subsp. africana Desmarest 1818

Subspecies Mustela africana subsp. stolzmanni Taczanowski 1881

Distribution: Amazon Basin in Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.

Conservation: IUCN – Data Deficient.

Discussion: Youngman (1982) and Abramov (1999) placed africana in subgenus Grammogale . Izor and de la Torre (1978) suggested that africana and felipei form a monophyletic group. Cabrera (1957) considered Grammogale a valid genus.