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SPECIES Mustela lutreola
Author: | Linnaeus, 1761. | Citation: | Fauna Suecica, 2nd ed.: 5. | Common Name: | European Mink | Type Locality: | "Finlandiae aquolis", restricted by Matschie (1912) to "Südwest-Finnland." | Distribution: | Belarus, Estonia, France, Latvia, Romania, Russia (Europe to the Urals), NE Spain. Formerly Germany, Poland, Austria, Czech Republic, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria. | Status: | IUCN – Endangered. | Comments: | Youngman (1982, 1990) and Abramov (1999) placed lutreola in subgenus Lutreola. Revised by Matschie (1912), Novikov (1939), and Youngman (1982, 1990). Occasional hybrids occur between lutreola and putorius (Ognev, 1931; Tumanov and Abramov, 2002; Youngman, 1982). Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951). |
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