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Mustela strigidorsa Gray 1855

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Mustela strigidorsa Gray, 1855. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1853:191 [1855].

TYPE LOCALITY: Not given. Gray (1853) based the type description on a manuscript given to him by Hodgson. Horsfield (1855) later fixed the type locality as, "the Sikim Hills of Tarai." [India, Sikkim].

DISTRIBUTION: Nepal east through Burma, Yunnan (China) and Thailand to Laos.

COMMENTS: Youngman (1982) suggested that strigidorsa belonged in subgenus Lutreola.

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 324, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191

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Scientific name authorship
Gray
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Mustelidae
Genus
Mustela
Species
strigidorsa
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Mustela strigidorsa Gray, 1855 sec. Wozencraft, 1993

References

  • Gray, J. E. 1853 [1855]. Observations on some rare Indian animals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1853: 190 - 192.
  • Horsfield, M. D. 1855. Brief notices of several new or little known species of Mammalia, lately discovered and collected in Nepal by Brian Houghton Hodgson. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 2, 16: 101 - 114.
  • Youngman, P. M. 1982. Distribution and systematics of the European mink, Mustela lutreola Linnaeus, 1761. Acta Zoologica Fennica, 166: 1 - 48.