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The American badger is a member of the Mustelidae, a diverse family of carnivorous mammals that also includes weasels, otters, ferrets, and the wolverine. [4] The American badger belongs to the Taxidiinae, one of four subfamilies of mustelid badgers – the other three being the Melinae (four species in two genera, including the European badger), the Helictidinae (five species of ferret ...
European badger. Badgers are medium-sized short-legged omnivores in the superfamily Musteloidea.Badgers are a polyphyletic rather than a natural taxonomic grouping, being united by their squat bodies and adaptions for fossorial activity rather than by their ancestral relationships: Musteloidea contains several families, only two of which (the "weasel family" Mustelidae and the "skunk family ...
American ermine: Most of North America south of Alaska and the Arctic Circle; eastern Nunavut and Baffin Island Lutreola: Mustela itatsi Temminck, 1844: Japanese weasel: Japan and formerly Sakhalin Island, Russia Mustela lutreola (Linnaeus, 1761) European mink: Europe Mustela lutreolina Robinson and Thomas, 1917: Indonesian mountain weasel ...
Mustela sibirica. COVID-19 can infect both the European mink (Mustela lutreola) and the American mink (Neogale vison).Ferrets are used to study COVID-19. [5] Ferrets get some of the same symptoms as humans, [6] but they get less sick than farmed mink. [7]
Below is the classification of how the extant families were related to each other after American paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson in 1945: [37] Order Carnivora Bowdich, 1821. Suborder Fissipedia Blumenbach, 1791. Superfamily Canoidea G. Fischer de Waldheim, 1817. Family Canidae G. Fischer de Waldheim, 1817 – dogs
The American hog-nosed skunk is adapted for digging, and resembles badgers rather than other species of skunks in this respect. The rectangular-shaped scapula, strong forearms, and shape of the humeri of C. leuconotus resemble those of badgers. The nostrils are located ventrally and open downward.
Skulls of a long-tailed weasel (top), a stoat (bottom left) and least weasel (bottom right), as illustrated in Merriam's Synopsis of the Weasels of North America. The long-tailed weasel is the product of a process begun 5–7 million years ago, when northern forests were replaced by open grassland, thus prompting an explosive evolution of small, burrowing rodents.
Caniformia is a suborder within the order Carnivora consisting of "dog-like" carnivorans. They include dogs (wolves, foxes, etc.), bears, raccoons, and mustelids. [1] The Pinnipedia (seals, walruses and sea lions) are also assigned to this group.