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Spilogale interrupta (prairie spotted skunk)

Mammalia - 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) 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
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
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
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