Mustelidae Fischer 1817

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 601

Mustelidae Fischer 1817

Mustelidae Fischer 1817 , Mem. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscow, 5: 372.

Synonyms: Mustelladae Gray 1821 .

Genera: 22 genera with 59 species in 2 subfamilies:

Subfamily Lutrinae Bonaparte 1838

Genus Aonyx Lesson 1827 (2 species with 9 subspecies)

Genus Enhydra Fleming 1822 (1 species with 3 subspecies)

Genus Hydrictis Pocock 1921 (1 species)

Genus Lontra Gray 1843 (4 species with 10 subspecies)

Genus Lutra Brisson 1762 (3 species with 11 subspecies)

Genus Lutrogale Gray 1865 (1 species with 2 subspecies)

Genus Pteronura Gray 1837 (1 species with 2 subspecies)

Subfamily Mustelinae Fischer 1817

Genus Arctonyx F. G. Cuvier 1825 (1 species with 6 subspecies)

Genus Eira C. E. H. Smith 1842 (1 species with 9 subspecies)

Genus Galictis Bell 1826 (2 species with 8 subspecies)

Genus Gulo Pallas 1780 (1 species with 6 subspecies)

Genus Ictonyx Kaup 1835 (2 species with 23 subspecies)

Genus Lyncodon Gervais 1845 (1 species with 2 subspecies)

Genus Martes Pinel 1792 (8 species with 63 subspecies)

Genus Meles Brisson 1762 (3 species with 13 subspecies)

Genus Mellivora Storr 1780 (1 species with 12 subspecies)

Genus Melogale I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1831 (4 species with 14 subspecies)

Genus Mustela Linnaeus 1758 (17 species with 139 subspecies)

Genus Neovison Baryshnikov and Abramov 1997 (2 species with 15 subspecies)

Genus Poecilogale Thomas 1883 (1 species with 5 subspecies)

Genus Taxidea Waterhouse 1838 (1 species with 5 subspecies)

Genus Vormela Blasius 1884 (1 species with 5 subspecies)

Discussion: Reviewed by Pocock (1921 b, d), Muizon (1982 a), Van Zyll de Jong (1987), Bryant et al. (1993), Masuda and Yoshida (1994 a, b), Abramov and Baryshnikov (1995), Dragoo and Honeycutt (1997), Baryshnikov and Abramov (1997, 1998), Koepfli and Wayne (1998), Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999), Ginsburg and Morales (2000), and Kurose et al. (2000). Traditionally consisted of four subfamilies (Mephitinae, Melinae, Mustelinae, and Lutrinae ), but McKenna and Bell (1997) also recognized Mellivorinae and Guloninae . The Mephitinae are separated here (see Mephitidae ) following Dragoo and Honeycutt (1997). Few have questioned the distinctiveness of the Lutrinae , but the traditionally recognized Melinae and Mustelinae appear to be paraphyletic ( Bininda-Emonds et al., 1999; Bryant et al., 1993). For these reasons, only two subfamilies are recognized here, the Lutrinae and the Mustelinae (provisionally including taxa traditionally placed in Melinae, Guloninae, Taxidiinae, and Mellivorinae ). Bryant et al. (1993) argued that Melogale may be ancestral to Lutrinae and Mustelinae .