Spilogale gracilis

C. H. Merriam, 1890

Western Spotted Skunk

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Merriam, C.H. 1890-09-11. Annotated list of mammals of the San Francisco mountain plateau and desert of the Little Colorado in Arizona, with notes on their vertical distribution, and descriptions of new species. North American Fauna 3:43-86.

Original name as described

Spilogale gracilis

Type material

USNM:MAMM:17986 (= USNM:MAMM:A24897)

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"From Grand Cañon of the Colorado (altitude 3,500 feet), Arizona, north of San Francisco Mountain," United States.

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic

Country distribution

Canada · United States · Mexico

Subregion distribution

USA(WA,OR,ID,MT,WY,CO,NM,UT,NV,CA)

Taxonomy notes

previously included S. leucoparia

Taxonomy notes citation

McDonough, M. M., Ferguson, A. W., Dowler, R. C., Gompper, M. E., & Maldonado, J. E. (2021). Phylogenomic systematics of the spotted skunks (Carnivora, Mephitidae, Spilogale): Additional species diversity and Pleistocene climate change as a major driver of diversification. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, XX, XX-XX.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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