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SPECIES Mustela nigripes

Author:Audubon and Bachman, 1851.
Citation:Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, 2(297).
Common Name:Black-footed Ferret
Type Locality:"lower waters of the Platte River", restricted by Hayden (1863:138) to "Fort Laramie" [Wyoming, USA].
Distribution:Formerly, Canada (S Alberta and Saskatchewan), USA (south to Arizona, Oklahoma, and NW Texas). Viable populations now only in captivity (see status).
Status:CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered, except where listed as an Experimental Non Essential Population in portions of Arizona, Colorado, Montana, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming (USA); IUCN – Extinct in the Wild.
Comments:Reviewed by Hillman and Clark (1980) and Anderson (1977). Youngman (1982) and Abramov (1999) placed nigripes in the subgenus Putorius. Anderson (1977) and Kurtén and Anderson (1980) suggested that nigripes and eversmanii may be conspecific.
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