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Spilogale interrupta (prairie spotted skunk)

Osteichthyes - Carnivora - Mephitidae

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), Baskin (1998); it was recombined as Spilogale interrupta by Gray (1865), Merriam (1890), Hay (1902), Hall (1936), Hibbard (1955), Miller and Kellogg (1955), McDonough et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1820Mephitis interrupta Rafinesque
1865Spilogale interrupta Gray
1890Spilogale interrupta Merriam
1902Spilogale interrupta Hay p. 766
1936Spilogale interrupta Hall
1955Spilogale interrupta Hibbard p. 220
1955Spilogale interrupta Miller and Kellogg
2022Spilogale interrupta McDonough et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Ferae()
—Pancarnivora
—CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
—CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderCaniformiaKretzoi 1943
infraorderCanoidea(Simpson 1931)
superfamilyArctoideaFlower 1869
—Mustelida
familyMephitidaeBonaparte 1845
genusSpilogaleGray 1865
speciesinterrupta(Rafinesque 1820)

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.

Spilogale interrupta Rafinesque 1820 [prairie spotted skunk]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: scansorialg
Diet: carnivoreo
Diet 2: omnivoreo
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2011-04-25 12:11:02
Modified: 2011-04-24 21:11:02
Source: g = genus, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Nowak 1999, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Gebo and Rose 1993

Age range: Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.12900 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Missouri) Spilogale interrupta (93379)