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Neovison vison

Description

Neovison vison (Schreber 1777)

[Putorius] vison Schreber 1777, Die Saugethiere, Vol. 3, 19: pl. 127. B [1777]; see aksi text, 3 (26): 463 [1777].

Type Locality: "Man findet das Vison in Canada un Pensilvanien". Larivière (1999 c) listed type locality as "Eastern Canada ".

Vernacular Names: American Mink.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Neovison vison subsp. vison Schreber 1777

Subspecies Neovison vison subsp. aestuarina Ginnell 1916

Subspecies Neovison vison subsp. aniakensis Burns 1964

Subspecies Neovison vison subsp. energumenos Bangs 1896

Subspecies Neovison vison subsp. evagor Hall 1932

Subspecies Neovison vison subsp. evergladensis Hamilton 1948

Subspecies Neovison vison subsp. ingens Osgood 1900

Subspecies Neovison vison subsp. lacustris Preble 1902

Subspecies Neovison vison subsp. letifera Hollister 1913

Subspecies Neovison vison subsp. lowii Anderson 1945

Subspecies Neovison vison subsp. lutensis Bangs 1898

Subspecies Neovison vison subsp. melampeplus Elliot 1904

Subspecies Neovison vison subsp. mink Peale and Palisot de Beauvois 1796

Subspecies Neovison vison subsp. nesolestes Heller 1909

Subspecies Neovison vison subsp. vulgivaga Bangs 1895

Distribution: Canada, USA (Alaska and through all of USA except SW deserts). Introduced to Belarus, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britian, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan (Hokkaido), Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Mustela vision (sic).

Discussion: Synonyms allocated according to Hall (1981) and Larivière (1999).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, pp. 532-628 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 619, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Related works

Is part of
Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/E69BF2968277AF6992A8FF32E9D4E7ED (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/3DBB6B6A6C1D857687AF04CBF330E7A8 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/231547622 (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Schreber
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Mustelidae
Genus
Neovison
Species
vison
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Neovison vison (Schreber, 1777) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Schreber, J. C. D. 1777. Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen 1776 - 1778. Wolfgang Walther, Erlangen, 3: 377 - 440, pls. 104 B, 107 Aa, 109 B, 110 B, 115 B, 125 B, 127 B, 136, 146 A.
  • 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.
  • Osgood, W. H. 1900. Revision of the pocket mice of the genus Perognathus. North American Fauna, 18: 1 - 73.
  • Preble, E. A. 1902. A biological investigation of the Hudson Bay region. North American Fauna, 22: 1 - 140.
  • Heller, E. 1909. Two new rodents from British East Africa. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 52: 471 - 472.
  • Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.