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--> SUBFAMILY Mustelinae
--> GENUS Mustela
SPECIES Mustela eversmanii
| Author: | Lesson, 1827. | | Citation: | Manuel de Mammalogie: 144. | | Common Name: | Steppe Polecat | | Type Locality: | "trouvé...entre Orembourg et Bukkara," restricted by Stroganov (1962:338) to "bassein srednego techeniya r. Ileka, v raione vpadenya ...r. Bol'shoi Khobdy" [Russia, Orenburg Obl., south of Orenburg, mouth of Bol'shaya Khobda River, a tributary of Ilek River]. | | Distribution: | Austria, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. | | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable as M. e. amurensis, otherwise Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | The correct spelling of this name is eversmanii (Mazák, 1971). Reviewed by Kostroň (1948), Stroganov (1958, 1962), Heptner et al. (1967), and Anderson (1977). Youngman (1982) and Abramov (1999) placed eversmanii in the subgenus Putorius. Anderson (1977) and Kurtén and Anderson (1980) suggested that nigripes and eversmanii may be conspecific. Pocock (1936b) and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1966) considered eversmanii and putorius conspecific; however, Ognev (1931), Stroganov (1962), and Heptner et al. (1967) recognized them as distinct species. |
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