Mephitis mephitis

• Main Author: W. Christopher Wozencraft
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Carnivora; Mustelidae; Mephitis; Mephitis mephitis; Hudson Bay; Northwest Territories
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7288486; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/41263629C30F745AFF0FFE9BF98D10C4

Mephitis mephitis (Schreber, 1776). Die Säugethiere, 3(17):pl. 121 [1776], text, 3(26):444, 588 (index) [1777]. TYPE LOCALITY: "Amerika". DISTRIBUTION: SW Northwest Territories to Hudson Bay and S Quebec (Canada), south to Florida (USA), N Tamaulipas, N Durango, and N Baja California (Mexico). SYNONYMS: americana Desmarest, 1818; avia Bangs, 1898; bivirgata H[amilton]-Smith, 1842; dentata Brass, 1911; elongata Bangs, 1895; estor Merriam, 1890; fetidissima Boitard, 1842; foetulenta Elliot, 1899; frontata Coues, 1875; holzneri Mearns, 1897; hudsonica Richardson, 1829; major Howell, 1901; mesomelas Lichtenstein, 1832; minnesotoe Brass, 1911; newtonensis Brown, 1908; nigra Peale and Palisot de Beauvois, 1796; notata Howell, 1901; occidentalis Baird, 1858; olida Boitard, 1842; platyrhina Howell, 1901; putida Boitard, 1842; scrutator Bangs, 1896; spissigrada Bangs, 1898; varions Gray, 1837. COMMENTS: Reviewed by Wade-Smith and Verts (1982, Mammalian Species, 173). Published as part of W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 317, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191