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Spilogale putorius (eastern spotted skunk)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Mephitidae

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) and Marmi et al. (2004).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Viverra putorius Linnaeus p. 44
1859Mephitis quaterlinearis Winans
1869Hemiacis perdicida Cope
1888Mephitis perdicida Schlosser
1890Spilogale indianola Merriam
1893Mephitis perdicida Zittel
1896Mephitis putorius Cope
1898Spilogale ambarvalis Bangs p. 222
1898Spilogale perdicida Trouessart
1899Galera perdicida Schlosser
1902Spilogale perdicida Hay p. 766
1904Spilogale perdicida Trouessart
1911Spilogale putorius Thomas p. 137
1923Spilogale putorius Hay
1930Spilogale putorius Hay
1933Spilogale marylandensis Gidley and Gazin p. 351
1936Spilogale putorius Hall
1942Spilogale pedroensis Gazin
1980Spilogale putorius Kurten and Anderson p. 162
1989Spilogale putorius Mead and Mead p. 151
1998Spilogale putorius Baskin
2004Spilogale putorius Marmi et al. p. 489 figs. Fig. 2

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

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