Neogale africana
(A. G. Desmarest, 1818)
Amazon Weasel
Taxonomy
Subclass | : Theria |
Infraclass | : Placentalia |
Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
Order | : Carnivora |
Suborder | : Caniformia |
Infraorder | : Arctoidea |
Superfamily | : Musteloidea |
Family | : Mustelidae |
Subfamily | : Mustelinae |
Genus | : Neogale |
Species status
Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005
Authority citation
Desmarest, A.G. 1818. MARTE, Mustela. Pp. 364–387 in Anonymous. (eds.). Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle. Nouvelle Édition. Tome XIX. Deterville, Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, 619 pp.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18042108Original name as described
Mustela africana
Other common names
Tropical Weasel
Type material
MNHN-ZM-MO-1984-628 (= MNHN ? 848)
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1984-628Type locality
Brazil.
Biogeographic realm
Neotropic
Country distribution
Colombia · Ecuador · Peru · Brazil
Taxonomy notes
moved from Mustela to Neogale
Taxonomy notes citation
Patterson, B. D., Ramírez-Chaves, H. E., Vilela, J. F., Soares, A. E. R., & Grewe, F. (2021). On the nomenclature of the American clade of weasels (Carnivora: Mustelidae). Journal of Animal Diversity, 3(2), 1-8.
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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