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Taxon: Subfamily Mustelinae Batsch, 1788 - weasels (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Carnivora - (Family) Mustelidae

Original position

Questionably Mustelidae (Family) Batsch, 1788

Original entries

Questionably †Anatolictis (Genus) Schmidt-Kittler, 1976
Questionably †Baranogale (Genus) Kormos, 1934
Questionably †Canimartes (Genus) Cope, 1892
Questionably †Cernictis (Genus) Hall, 1935
Questionably †Circamustela (Genus) Petter, 1967
Questionably †Dinogale (Genus) Cook & Macdonald, 1962
Questionably †Enhydrictis (Genus) Stefani, 1891
Questionably †Marcetia (Genus) Petter, 1967
Questionably †Miomustela (Genus) Hall, 1930
Questionably †Oxyvormela (Genus) Rabeder, 1973
Questionably †Pannonictis (Genus) Kormos, 1931
Questionably †Paramartes (Genus) Kretzoi, 1952
Questionably †Plionictis (Genus) Matthew, 1924
Questionably †Pliotaxidea (Genus) Hall, 1944
Questionably Poecilictis (Genus) Thomas & Hinton, 1920
Questionably Poecilogale (Genus) Thomas, 1883
Questionably †Proputorius (Genus) Filhol, 1890
Questionably †Sinictis (Genus) Zdansky, 1924
Questionably †Sminthosinus (Genus) Bjork, 1970
Questionably †Sthenictis (Genus) Peterson, 1910
Questionably †Stipanicicia (Genus) Reig, 1956
Questionably †Tisisthenes (Genus) Martin, 1973
Questionably †Trigonictis (Genus) Hibbard, 1941
Questionably Vormela (Genus) Blasius, 1884

Subsequent entries

Eira (Genus) Smith, 1842
Galictis (Genus) Bell, 1826
Ictonyx (Genus) Kaup, 1835
Lyncodon (Genus) Gervais, 1845
Martes (Genus) Pinel, 1792
Mustela (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758
Taxidea (Genus) Waterhouse, 1839

Current position

Mustelidae (Family) Batsch, 1788 Ref: W.C. Wozencraft, 2005: 605.

Historical positions

Mustelidae (Family) Batsch, 1788 Ref: W.C. Wozencraft, 2005: 605.
Mustelidae (Family) Batsch, 1788 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 265.
Mustelidae (Family) Batsch, 1788 Ref: W.C. Wozencraft, 1993: 317.
Mustelidae (Family) Batsch, 1788 Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1042.
Mustelidae (Family) Batsch, 1788 Ref: B. Grzimek, 1973-1975

Number of Subtaxa

2026 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 10g;35s;279ss; ‡1s; †21g;3s
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000: 11 Dec 2014 [10g;35s;279ss; †21g]
2005 W.C. Wozencraft: 620 [15g;45s;330ss; ‡1s]
1997 M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell [10g; †21g]
1993 W.C. Wozencraft [9g;33s]
1982 A.F. DeBlase 12[11]g
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