Mustela erminea Linnaeus 1758

• Main Author: W. Christopher Wozencraft
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Carnivora; Mustelidae; Mustela; Mustela erminea; New Zealand; Barrett; Nivea; Griffith; Bonaparte; Youngman; Tundra
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7288551; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7288551

Mustela erminea Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:46. TYPE LOCALITY: "Europa and Asia frigidiore; hyeme praefertim in alpinis regionibus nivea". DISTRIBUTION: Circumboreal, tundra and forested regions of Palearctic, south to the Pyrenees, alpine Slovenia, Alps, Caucasus, W Himalayas, and Xinjiang (China); N Mongolia, N China; and C Honshu (Japan); and, in the Nearctic south to C California, N New Mexico, N Iowa and Maryland (USA). Introduced to New Zealand. STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (India). SYNONYMS: alascensis Merriam, 1896; algiricus Thomas, 1895; anguinae Hall, 1932; angustidens Brown, 1908; arcticus Merriam, 1896; audax Barrett-Hamilton, 1904; bangsi Hall, 1945; celenda Hall, 1944; cigognanii Bonaparte, 1838; fallendo Hall, 1945; ferghanae Thomas, 1895; gulosa Hall, 1945; haidarum Preble, 1898; herminea Oken, 1816; hibernicus Thomas and Barrett-Hamilton, 1895; imperii Barrett-Hamilton, 1904; initis Hall, 1944; invicta Hall, 1945; kadiacensis Merriam, 1896; kanei G. M. Allen, 1914; labiata Degerbol, 1935; leptus Merriam, 1903; lymani Hollister, 1912; microtis J. A. Allen, 1903; mortigena Bangs, 1913; muricus Bangs, 1899; nippon Cabrera, 1913; olympica Hall, 1945; polaris Barrett-Hamilton, 1904; pusilla DeKay, 1842; richardsonii Bonaparte, 1838; rixosa Svihla and Svihla, 1932; salva Hall, 1944; seclusa Hall, 1944; semplei Sutton and Hamilton, 1932; streatori Merriam, 1896; vulgaris Griffith, 1827; whiteheadi Wroughton, 1908. COMMENTS: Revised by Eger (1990). Reviewed by C. M. King (1983, Mammalian Species, 195). Youngman (1982) placed erminea in the subgenus Mustela. 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 321, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7359191