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Conepatus (hog-nosed skunk)
Taxonomy
Conepatus was named by Gray (1837). It is extant.
It was assigned to Mephitinae by Allen (1901) and Kurten and Anderson (1980); to Mustelidae by Gray (1837), Schultz and Howard (1935) and Carroll (1988); to Mephitini by Wang et al. (2005); and to Mephitidae by Wang and Carranza-Castaneda (2008).
It was assigned to Mephitinae by Allen (1901) and Kurten and Anderson (1980); to Mustelidae by Gray (1837), Schultz and Howard (1935) and Carroll (1988); to Mephitini by Wang et al. (2005); and to Mephitidae by Wang and Carranza-Castaneda (2008).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1837 | Conepatus Gray |
| 1838 | Thiosmus Lichtenstein |
| 1901 | Conepatus Allen p. 332 |
| 1935 | Conepatus Schultz and Howard p. 283 |
| 1980 | Conepatus Kurten and Anderson p. 164 |
| 1988 | Conepatus Carroll |
| 2005 | Conepatus Wang et al. p. 937 |
| 2008 | Conepatus Wang and Carranza-Castaneda p. 388 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Conepatus Gray 1837 [hog-nosed skunk]
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†Conepatus altiramus Reig 1952
Conepatus chinga Molina 1782 [Molina's hog-nosed skunk]
†Conepatus cordubensis Ameghino 1889
Conepatus humboldtii Gray 1837 [Humboldt's hog-nosed skunk]
Conepatus leuconotus Lichtenstein 1832 [eastern hog-nosed skunk]
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Invalid names: Mephitis mesoleucus Lichtenstein 1832 [synonym]
†Conepatus mercedensis Ameghino 1875
†Conepatus primaevus Burmeister 1864
†Conepatus robustus Martin 1978
†Conepatus sanmiguelensis Wang and Carranza-Castaneda 2008
Conepatus semistriatus Boddaert 1785 [striped hog-nosed skunk]
Conepatus suffocans Illiger 1811
†Conepatus talarae Churcher and Van Zyll de Jong 1965
Invalid names: Thiosmus Lichtenstein 1838 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available