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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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SUBSPECIES lutreola

SUBSPECIES biedermanni

SUBSPECIES binominata

SUBSPECIES cylipena

SUBSPECIES novikovi

SUBSPECIES transsylvanica

SUBSPECIES turovi

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