Mustela nivalis Linnaeus, 1766

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 323

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Mustela nivalis Linnaeus, 1766 View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1:69.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Westrobothnia " [ Sweden].

DISTRIBUTION: The Palearctic (excl. Ireland, the Arabian Peninsula, and Arctic Isis); Japan; the Nearctic in Alaska ( USA), Canada, and USA, south to Wyoming and North Carolina. Introduced to New Zealand; see Corbet and Hill (1980).

SYNONYMS: africana Gray, 1865 ; albipes Mina Palumbo, 1868 ; allegheniensis Rhoads, 1901 ; alpinus Burg, 1920 ; atlas Barrett-Hamilton, 1904; boccamela Bechstein, 1800 ; campestris Jackson, 1913; caraftensis Kishida, 1936; caucasicus Barrett-Hamilton, 1900; corsicanus Cavazza, 1908; dinniki Satunin, 1907; dombrowskii Matschie, 1901 ; eskimo Stone, 1900; fulva Mina Palumbo, 1868 ; gale Pallas, 1811; galinthias Bate, 1906; italicus BarrettHamilton, 1900; kamtschatica Dybowski, 1922; major Fatio, 1905 ; meridionalis Costa, 1869; minor Nilsson, 1820 ; minutus Pomel, 1853 ; monticola Cavazza, 1908; mosanensis Mori, 1927; namiyei Kuroda, 1921; nikolskii Smirnov, 1899; numidicus Pucheran, 1855 ; pallidus Barrett-Hamilton, 1900 ; punctata Domaniewski, 1926 ; pusillus Fatio, 1869 ; pygmaeus J. A. Allen, 1903 ; rixosus Bangs, 1896 ; russelliana Thomas, 1911 ; siculus Barrett-Hamilton, 1900; stoliczkana Blanford, 1877 ; subpalmata Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1833 ; tonkinensis Björkegren, 1942 ; trettaui Kleinschmidt, 1937 ; typicus Barrett-Hamilton, 1900 ; vulgaris Erxleben, 1777 ; yesoidsuna Kishida, 1936.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Reichstein (1957) and van Zyll de Jong (1992), who considered Putorius rixosus and Mustela nivalis conspecific. Youngman (1982) placed nivalis in the subgenus Mustela .