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Spilogale putorius (eastern spotted skunk)
Taxonomy
Viverra putorius was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.
It was recombined as Mephitis putorius by Cope (1896); it was considered a nomen vanum by Allen (1901); it was recombined as Spilogale putorius by Thomas (1911), Hay (1923), Hay (1930), Hall (1936), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Mead and Mead (1989), Baskin (1998), Marmi et al. (2004).
It was recombined as Mephitis putorius by Cope (1896); it was considered a nomen vanum by Allen (1901); it was recombined as Spilogale putorius by Thomas (1911), Hay (1923), Hay (1930), Hall (1936), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Mead and Mead (1989), Baskin (1998), Marmi et al. (2004).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Viverra putorius Linnaeus p. 44 |
| 1859 | Mephitis quaterlinearis Winans |
| 1869 | Hemiacis perdicida Cope |
| 1888 | Mephitis perdicida Schlosser |
| 1890 | Spilogale indianola Merriam |
| 1893 | Mephitis perdicida Zittel |
| 1896 | Mephitis putorius Cope |
| 1898 | Spilogale ambarvalis Bangs p. 222 |
| 1898 | Spilogale perdicida Trouessart |
| 1899 | Galera perdicida Schlosser |
| 1902 | Spilogale perdicida Hay p. 766 |
| 1904 | Spilogale perdicida Trouessart |
| 1911 | Spilogale putorius Thomas p. 137 |
| 1923 | Spilogale putorius Hay |
| 1930 | Spilogale putorius Hay |
| 1933 | Spilogale marylandensis Gidley and Gazin p. 351 |
| 1936 | Spilogale putorius Hall |
| 1942 | Spilogale pedroensis Gazin |
| 1980 | Spilogale putorius Kurten and Anderson p. 162 |
| 1989 | Spilogale putorius Mead and Mead p. 151 |
| 1998 | Spilogale putorius Baskin |
| 2004 | Spilogale putorius Marmi et al. p. 489 figs. Fig. 2 |
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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.
Spilogale putorius Linnaeus 1758 [eastern spotted skunk]
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Invalid names: Galera perdicida [synonym], Mephitis quaterlinearis Winans 1859 [synonym], Spilogale ambarvalis Bangs 1898 [synonym], Spilogale indianola Merriam 1890 [synonym], Spilogale marylandensis Gidley and Gazin 1933 [synonym], Spilogale pedroensis Gazin 1942 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Gebo and Rose 1993, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range: base of the Gelasian to the top of the Rancholabrean or 2.58000 to 0.01400 Ma
Collections (38 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Blancan | USA (Arizona) | Spilogale pedroensis (20303) | |
| Gelasian | USA (Kansas) | Spilogale ambarvalis (19927) | |
| Pleistocene | USA (West Virginia) | Spilogale putorius (124319) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Alabama) | Spilogale putorius (20282) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Maryland) | Spilogale marylandensis, Spilogale putorius (20302) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Texas) | Spilogale putorius (20164) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Colorado) | Spilogale putorius (20349 20559) Spilogale sp. (20150 20477) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Kansas) | Spilogale interrupta (20295) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (California) | Spilogale putorius (20124 20126) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Florida) | Spilogale putorius (20289 20385) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (New Mexico) | Spilogale putorius (20506) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Arkansas) | Spilogale interrupta (20290) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | USA (Virginia) | Spilogale putorius (104662) | |
| Rancholabrean | USA (Florida) | Spilogale putorius (20440 20491 195112) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial) | USA (Florida) | Spilogale putorius (154722) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Virginia) | Spilogale putorius (124089) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Kansas) | Spilogale interrupta (20605) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Mexico (Nuevo Leon) | Spilogale sp. (71345) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Indiana) | Spilogale putorius (20600) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial) | USA (Colorado) | Spilogale putorius (74954) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial) | USA (Texas) | Spilogale putorius (79581) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Spilogale ambarvalis (74292) Spilogale putorius (154805) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Georgia) | Spilogale putorius (13066) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (glacial) | USA (Florida) | Spilogale ambarvalis (154771) Spilogale putorius (20598) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Florida) | Spilogale putorius (20595 20634) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (Virginia) | Spilogale putorius (104689) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene (late glacial) | USA (Nevada) | Spilogale putorius (93291) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene (late glacial) | USA (Arizona) | Spilogale putorius (93374) |