Mustelidae, Fischer, 1817

Voss, Robert S. & Fleck, David W., 2017, Mammalian Diversity And Matses Ethnomammalogy In Amazonian Peru Part 2: Xenarthra, Carnivora, Perissodactyla, Artiodactyla, And Sirenia, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2017 (417), pp. 1-1 : 1-

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https://doi.org/ 10.1206/00030090-417.1.1

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scientific name

Mustelidae
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Five mustelid species are definitely known to occur in the Yavarí-Ucayali interfluve, including three terrestrial species and two otters. The terrestrial species—tayra ( Eira barbara ), grison ( Galictis vittata ), and Amazonian weasel ( Mustela africana )—were formerly classified in the subfamily Mustelinae , but Mustelinae (sensu lato) is now known to be paraphyletic (Koepfli et al., 2008; Sato et al., 2012). In the alternative subfamilial classification suggested by Nascimento (2014), the tayra would be referred to the subfamily Guloninae , the grison to the subfamily Ictonychinae , and the Amazonian weasel to the subfamily Mustelinae (sensu stricto). Otters remain in their traditional subfamily, Lutrinae (below).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Mustelidae

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