Mustela erminea Linnaeus 1758
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Mustela erminea Linnaeus 1758
Mustela erminea Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 46.
Type Locality: "Europa and Asia frigidiore; hyeme praefertim in alpinis regionibus nivea".
Vernacular Names: Ermine.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. erminea Linnaeus 1758
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. aestiva Kerr 1792
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. alascensis Merriam 1896
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. anguinae Hall 1932
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. arctica Merriam 1896
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. augustidens Brown 1908
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. bangsi Hall 1945
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. celenda Hall 1944
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. cigognanii Bonaparte 1838
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. fallenda Hall 1945
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. ferghanae Thomas 1895
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. gulosa Hall 1945
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. haidarum Preble 1898
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. hibernica Thomas and Barrett-Hamilton 1895
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. initis Hall 1945
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. invicta Hall 1945
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. kadiacensis Merriam 1896
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. kaneii Baird 1857
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. karaginensis Jurgenson 1936
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. lymani Hollister 1912
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. martinoi Ellerman and Morrison-Scott 1951
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. minima Cavazza 1912
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. mongolica Ognev 1928
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. muricus Bangs 1899
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. nippon Cabrera 1913
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. ognevi Jurgenson 1932
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. olympica Hall 1945
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. polaris Barrett-Hamilton 1904
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. richardsonii Bonaparte 1838
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. ricinae Miller 1907
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. salva Hall 1944
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. seclusa Hall 1944
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. semplei Sutton and Hamilton 1932
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. stabilis Barrett-Hamilton 1904
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. streatori Merriam 1896
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. teberdina Korneev 1941
Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. tobolica Ognev 1923
Distribution: Circumboreal, tundra and forested regions of Palearctic. Afghanistan, Algeria, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan (C Honshu), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand (introduced), Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, USA (C California, N New Mexico, N Iowa and Maryland).
Conservation: CITES – Appendix III (India) as M. erminea ferghanae; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Revised by Eger (1990). Reviewed by C. M. King (1983). Youngman (1982) and Abramov (1999) placed erminea in the subgenus Mustela. Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), Hall (1951, 1981), and C. M. King (1983).
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Mustelidae
- Genus
- Mustela
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- erminea
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mustela erminea Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.
- Kerr, R. 1792. The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; class I: Mammalia. London, J. Murray & R. Faulder, 664 pp.
- Hall, E. R., and R. M. Gilmore. 1932. New mammals from St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, Alaska. University of California Publications in Zoology, 38: 391 - 404.
- Bonaparte, C. L. J. L. 1838. Synopsis vertebratorum systematis. Nuovi Annali delle Scienze Naturali, Bologna, 1: 105 - 133.
- Thomas, O. 1895. Preliminary diagnoses of new mammals from northern Luzon, collected by Mr. John Whitehead. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 6, 16: 160 - 164.
- Baird, S. F. 1857. Mammals: General report upon the zoology of the several Pacific railroad routes. Vol. 8, pt. 1, in Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Senate executive document no. 78, Washington, D. C., 757 pp.
- Hollister, N. 1912. The names of the Rocky Mountain goat. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 25: 185 - 186.
- Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.
- Ognev, S. I. 1928. Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii: Nasekomoyadnye i letychie myshi [Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia: Insectivora and Chiroptera]. Glavnauka, Moscow, 1: 1 - 631 (in Russian).
- Eger, J. L. 1990. Patterns of geographic variation in the skull of Nearctic ermine (Mustela erminea). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 68: 1241 - 1249.
- Youngman, P. M. 1982. Distribution and systematics of the European mink, Mustela lutreola Linnaeus, 1761. Acta Zoologica Fennica, 166: 1 - 48.