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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CARNIVORA
--> SUBORDER CANIFORMIA
--> FAMILY Mustelidae
--> SUBFAMILY Mustelinae
--> GENUS Mustela
SPECIES Mustela strigidorsa
| Author: | Gray, 1853. | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1853: 191. | | Common Name: | Back-striped Weasel | | Type Locality: | Not given. Gray (1853) based the type description on a manuscript given to him by Hodgson. Horsfield (1855) later fixed the type locality as "the Sikim Hills of Tarai." [India, Sikkim]. | | Distribution: | Burma, China (Yunnan, Guizhou), India, Laos, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam. | | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | Youngman (1982) suggested that strigidorsa belonged in subgenus Lutreola. Abramov (1999) placed it in subgenus Cryptomustela. |
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