Ictonyx striatus

(Perry, 1810)

Zorilla

Also as Striped Polecat.
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Location:UK, England, Hertfordshire co., Broxbourne, Hertfordshire ZooDate taken:Jul 6, 2010

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 7497

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Carnivora
Suborder : Caniformia
Infraorder : Arctoidea
Parvorder : Mustelida
Family : Mustelidae
Subfamily : Ictonychinae
Tribe : Ictonychini
Genus : Ictonyx

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Perry, G. 1810. [Issue for November 1810]. Pp. Y1–Z8 in Perry, G. 1811. Arcana; or The Museum of Natural History: containing the most recent discovered objects. Embellished with coloured plates, and corresponding descriptions; with extracts relating to animals, and remarks of celebrated travellers; combining a general survey of nature. James Stratford, London, unnumbered pp.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39045301

Original name as described

Bradypus striatus

Other common names

Striped Polecat

Type locality

South Africa.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Mauritania · Senegal · Gambia · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Mali · Cote d'Ivoire · Burkina Faso · Ghana · Togo · Benin · Niger · Nigeria · Cameroon · Chad · Central African Republic · Sudan · South Sudan · Egypt · Eritrea · Djibouti · Ethiopia · Somalia · Kenya · Uganda · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Rwanda · Burundi · Tanzania · Republic of the Congo · Angola · Zambia · Malawi · Mozambique · Zimbabwe · Namibia · Botswana · South Africa · Lesotho · Eswatini

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005835

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 55 names and synonyms.

Mustela zorilla

(G. Cuvier, 1797)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

zorilla

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

misidentification

Authority page

116

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11637198

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

  1. Cuvier (1797:116, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11637198) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38531)
  2. Daudin (1802:163, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42033413) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64044)
  3. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1803:102) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/19153)
  4. Illiger (1815:79, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11080935) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38688)
  5. Voigt (1819:411) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69477)
  6. Ranzani (1820:261, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27807841) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69425)
  7. Desmarest (1821:181, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39523945) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34459)
  8. Schinz (1821:206, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51528965) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37604)
  9. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1826:215, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25385627) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/41027)
  10. Lesson (1827:147, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207615) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)
  11. Fischer (1829:218) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)
  12. Smuts (1832:12, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43088725) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/60235)
  13. Ehrenberg (1833:@sig. k p. 2, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48508486) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68841)

Bradypus striatus

(Perry, 1810)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

striatus

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

Y1

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39045301

Authority publication

London

Mephites Capensis

(A. Smith, 1826)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

capensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

20

Authority publication

Cape Town

Name usages

  1. Smith (1826:20) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36081)
  2. Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)

Mustela Zorilla Capensis

(J. B. Fischer, 1829)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

capensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

preoccupied

Authority page

218

Authority publication

Stuttgart

Name usages

Fischer (1829:218) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)

Mustela Zorilla Senegalensis

(J. B. Fischer, 1829)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

senegalensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

219

Authority publication

Stuttgart

Name usages

Fischer (1829:219) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)

Ictonyx capensis

Kaup, 1835

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

capensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

preoccupied

Authority page

353

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45992943

Authority publication

Darmstadt

Name usages

  1. Thomas & Schwann (1906:589, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31208308) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27129)
  2. Roberts (1913:75, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50439533) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/17656)

Mephitis africana

(H. Lichtenstein, 1838)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

africanus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

284

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29749820

Authority publication

Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin

Rhabdogale mustelina

(J. A. Wagner, 1841)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

mustelinus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

219

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31062848

Authority publication

Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur

Name usages

  1. Peters (1852:111) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/61421)
  2. Fitzinger (1855:318) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/65926)
  3. Fitzinger (1861:392, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6438325) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39159)
  4. Heuglin (1877:39, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36876370) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/66584)
  5. Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)

Zorilla Capensis

(C. H. Smith, 1842)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

capensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

190

Authority page URI

https://books.google.com/books?id=DvE_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA190

Authority publication

Edinburgh

Name usages

Smith (1842:190, https://books.google.com/books?id=DvE_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA190) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67141)

Zorilla variegata

(Lesson, 1842)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

variegatus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

71

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

  1. Lesson (1842:71) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)
  2. Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)

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