Mustela nivalis Linnaeus 1766

Mustela nivalis Linnaeus, 1766. Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1:69. TYPE LOCALITY: " Westrobothnia " [Sweden]. DISTRIBUTION: The Palearctic (excl. Ireland, the Arabian Peninsula, and Arctic Isis); Japan; the Nearctic in Alaska (USA), Canada, and USA, south to Wyoming and North Carolina. Introduced...

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Bibliographic Details
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 nivalis
Arctic
Barrett
Canada
New Zealand
Youngman
eskimo*
Alaska
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7288569
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7288569
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Summary:Mustela nivalis Linnaeus, 1766. Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1:69. TYPE LOCALITY: " Westrobothnia " [Sweden]. DISTRIBUTION: The Palearctic (excl. Ireland, the Arabian Peninsula, and Arctic Isis); Japan; the Nearctic in Alaska (USA), Canada, and USA, south to Wyoming and North Carolina. Introduced to New Zealand; see Corbet and Hill (1980). SYNONYMS: africana Gray, 1865; albipes Mina Palumbo, 1868; allegheniensis Rhoads, 1901; alpinus Burg, 1920; atlas Barrett-Hamilton, 1904; boccamela Bechstein, 1800; campestris Jackson, 1913; caraftensis Kishida, 1936; caucasicus Barrett-Hamilton, 1900; corsicanus Cavazza, 1908; dinniki Satunin, 1907; dombrowskii Matschie, 1901; eskimo Stone, 1900; fulva Mina Palumbo, 1868; gale Pallas, 1811; galinthias Bate, 1906; italicus BarrettHamilton, 1900; kamtschatica Dybowski, 1922; major Fatio, 1905; meridionalis Costa, 1869; minor Nilsson, 1820; minutus Pomel, 1853; monticola Cavazza, 1908; mosanensis Mori, 1927; namiyei Kuroda, 1921; nikolskii Smirnov, 1899; numidicus Pucheran, 1855; pallidus Barrett-Hamilton, 1900; punctata Domaniewski, 1926; pusillus Fatio, 1869; pygmaeus J. A. Allen, 1903; rixosus Bangs, 1896; russelliana Thomas, 1911; siculus Barrett-Hamilton, 1900; stoliczkana Blanford, 1877; subpalmata Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1833; tonkinensis Björkegren, 1942; trettaui Kleinschmidt, 1937; typicus Barrett-Hamilton, 1900; vulgaris Erxleben, 1777; yesoidsuna Kishida, 1936. COMMENTS: Reviewed by Reichstein (1957) and van Zyll de Jong (1992), who considered Putorius rixosus and Mustela nivalis conspecific. Youngman (1982) placed nivalis 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 323, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7359191

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