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Conepatus humboldtii Gray 1837

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Description

Conepatus humboldtii Gray, 1837. Mag. Nat. Hist. [Charlesworth's], 1:581.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Magellan Straits." [Chile].

DISTRIBUTION: NE Argentina and Paraguay south to the Straits of Magellan.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix IL

SYNONYMS: castaneus d'Orbigny and Gervais, 1847; gaucho Thomas, 1927; patachonica Burmeister, 1859; patagonica Lichtenstein, 1836; proteus Thomas, 1902.

COMMENTS: Kipp (1965) considered castaneus as conspecific; Cabrera (1958) considered it separate.

Notes

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 316, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191

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Scientific name authorship
Gray
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Mustelidae
Genus
Conepatus
Species
humboldtii
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Conepatus humboldtii Gray, 1837 sec. Wozencraft, 1993

References

  • Thomas, O. 1927. On a further collection of mammals made by Sr. E. Budin in Neuquen, Patagonia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 19: 650 - 658.
  • Kipp, H. 1965. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Gattung Conepatus Molina, 1782. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 30 (4): 193 - 232.
  • Cabrera, A. 1958. Dos felidos argentinos ineditos (Mammalia, Carnivora). Neotropica, 3 (12): 70 - 72.