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Skunks Striped skunks Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Superfamily: Musteloidea Family: Mephitidae Groups included Conepatus Mephitis Spilogale † Brachyprotoma Skunk genera ranges Cladistically included but traditionally excluded taxa Mydaus † Palaeomephitis † Promephitis Skunks are mammals in the family ...
Scientific name Common name Distribution Mephitis mephitis: Striped skunk: Southern Canada, the United States and northern Mexico Mephitis macroura: Hooded skunk: Southwestern United States to Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northwest Costa Rica
The striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) is a skunk of the genus Mephitis that occurs across much of North America, including southern Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. [3] It is currently listed as least concern by the IUCN on account of its wide range and ability to adapt to human-modified environments.
Similarly, the stink badgers had been classified with badgers, but genetic evidence shows they share a more recent common ancestor with skunks, so they are now included in the skunk family. A 2017 study using retroposon markers indicated that they are most closely related to the Ailuridae ( red pandas and allies) and Procyonidae ( raccoons and ...
Most mephitids are 20–50 cm (8–20 in) long, plus a 10–40 cm (4–16 in) tail, though the pygmy spotted skunk can be as small as 11 cm (4 in) plus a 7 cm (3 in) tail, and some striped skunks can be up to 82 cm (32 in) plus a 40 cm (16 in) tail.
Symplocarpus foetidus, commonly known as skunk cabbage [5] or eastern skunk cabbage (also swamp cabbage, clumpfoot cabbage, or meadow cabbage, foetid pothos or polecat weed), is a low-growing plant that grows in wetlands and moist hill slopes of eastern North America. Bruised leaves present an odor reminiscent of skunk.
Paederia foetida is a species of plant, with common names that are variations of skunkvine, stinkvine, pilau maile (Hawaiian) or Chinese fever vine. [3] It is native to temperate, and tropical Asia; and has become naturalized in the Mascarenes, Melanesia, Polynesia, and the Hawaiian Islands, also found in North America by recent studies.
Scientific name Common name Distribution Spilogale gracilis Merriam, 1890: Western spotted skunk: western United States, northern Mexico, and southwestern British Columbia Spilogale putorius (Linnaeus, 1758) Eastern spotted skunk