Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Alternative combinations: Mustela (Putorius) putorius, Putorius putorius
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Belongs to Mustela according to O. Thomas 1911
See also Hay 1902, Kurten 1968, Linnaeus 1758 and Marmi et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Mustela (Lutreola), Mustela (Putorius), Mustela aistoodonnivalis, Mustela altaica, Mustela erminea, Mustela eversmanni, Mustela furo, Mustela haidarum, Mustela itatsi, Mustela jacksoni, Mustela kathiah, Mustela lutreola, Mustela meltoni, Mustela nigripes, Mustela nivalis, Mustela nudipes, Mustela ogygia, Mustela pachygnatha, Mustela palaeattica, Mustela palermina, Mustela praenivalis, Mustela rexroadensis, Mustela richardsonii, Mustela sibirica, Mustela spelaea, Mustela strigidorsa
Ecology: scansorial carnivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Austria (1 collection), Belgium (1), France (1), Germany (3), Greece (1), Italy (3), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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