Conepatus chinga

(G. I. Molina, 1782)

Molina's Hog-nosed Skunk

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Carnivora
Suborder : Caniformia
Infraorder : Arctoidea
Superfamily : Musteloidea
Family : Mephitidae
Subfamily : Mephitinae
Genus : Conepatus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Molina, G.I. 1782. Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili. S. Tommaso d'Aquino, Bologna, 367 pp.

Authority publication link

https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/idurl/1/9635

Original name as described

Viverra Chinga

Other common names

Humboldt's Hog-nosed Skunk

Type locality

"Chili", restricted to "alrededores de Valparaíso". [Chile].

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Peru · Brazil · Bolivia · Paraguay · Uruguay · Chile · Argentina

Taxonomy notes

includes humboldtii; also includes feuillei, rex, and the recently described carloschebezi

Taxonomy notes citation

Feijó, A., & Langguth, A. (2013). Mamíferos de médio e grande porte do Nordeste do Brasil: distribuição e taxonomia, com descrição de novas espécies. Revista Nordestina de Biologia, 22(1/2), 3-225. · Schiaffini, M. I., Gabrielli, M., Prevosti, F. J., Cardoso, Y. P., Castillo, D., Bo, R., ... & Lizarralde, M. (2013). Taxonomic status of southern South American Conepatus (Carnivora: Mephitidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 167(2), 327-344. · Agnolin, F. L., Derguy, M. R., Godoy, I. N., & Chimento, N. R. (2019). Mamíferos argentinos: descripción de nuevas especies delas colecciones de Elio Massoia y Julio R. Contreras (Rodentia,Chiroptera, Carnivora). Historia Natural, 9, 107-181. · Teta, P., D'Elía, G., Jayat, J. P., Gonçalves, P. R., Simões, G., do Prado, R., ... & Schiaffini, M. I. (2020). On the distinction and availability of the new taxa proposed by Agnolin et al. 2019. Mastozoología Neotropical, en prensa, Mendoza, 1-17. · Quintela, F., da Rosa, C. A., & Feijó, A. (2020). Updated and annotated checklist of recent mammals from Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 92(2), e20191004.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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