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Spilogale interrupta (prairie spotted skunk)
Taxonomy
Mephitis interrupta was named by Rafinesque (1820). It is extant.
It was synonymized subjectively with Spilogale putorius by McCarley (1952), Hall (1981), Lee and Modi (1983) and Baskin (1998); it was recombined as Spilogale interrupta by Gray (1865), Merriam (1890), Hay (1902), Hall (1936), Hibbard (1955), Miller and Kellogg (1955) and McDonough et al. (2022).
It was synonymized subjectively with Spilogale putorius by McCarley (1952), Hall (1981), Lee and Modi (1983) and Baskin (1998); it was recombined as Spilogale interrupta by Gray (1865), Merriam (1890), Hay (1902), Hall (1936), Hibbard (1955), Miller and Kellogg (1955) and McDonough et al. (2022).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1820 | Mephitis interrupta Rafinesque |
| 1865 | Spilogale interrupta Gray |
| 1890 | Spilogale interrupta Merriam |
| 1902 | Spilogale interrupta Hay p. 766 |
| 1936 | Spilogale interrupta Hall |
| 1955 | Spilogale interrupta Hibbard p. 220 |
| 1955 | Spilogale interrupta Miller and Kellogg |
| 2022 | Spilogale interrupta McDonough et al. |
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Spilogale interrupta Rafinesque 1820 [prairie spotted skunk]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available