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 View in CoL

Mustela africana Desmarest 1818 View in CoL , 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.

References

Cabrera, A. 1957 [1958] - 1961. Catalogo de los mamiferos de America del Sur. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia . Ciencias Zoologicas, 4 (1): iv + 308 pp. [1958]; 4 (2): v-xxii + 309 - 732 [1961].

Izor, R. J., and L. de la Torre. 1978. A new species of weasel (Mustela) from the highlands of Colombia, with comments on the evolution and distribution of South American weasels. Journal of Mammalogy, 59: 92 - 102.

Youngman, P. M. 1982. Distribution and systematics of the European mink, Mustela lutreola Linnaeus, 1761. Acta Zoologica Fennica, 166: 1 - 48.