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Mustelidae (mustelid carnivore)
Taxonomy
Mustelidae was named by Fischer (1817). It is extant. Its type is Mustela.
It was assigned to Ferae by Bonaparte (1850); to Fissipedia by Cope (1889); to Caenoidea by Scheffer and Rice (1963); to Arctoidea by Flower (1883) and Carroll (1988); to Fissipedia by Flower and Lydekker (1891), Hendey (1974) and Vidal (1991); to Mustelida by Wang et al. (2005); to Carnivora by Nowak (1991), Sach and Heizmann (2001) and Morales and Pickford (2005); to Arctoidea by Salesa et al. (2006) and Owen (2006); to Caniformia by Prevosti and Ferrero (2008); and to Musteloidea by Tedford (1976), Muizon (1982), Berta and Morgan (1985), Baskin (1998), Labs Hochstein (2007) and Robles et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Ferae by Bonaparte (1850); to Fissipedia by Cope (1889); to Caenoidea by Scheffer and Rice (1963); to Arctoidea by Flower (1883) and Carroll (1988); to Fissipedia by Flower and Lydekker (1891), Hendey (1974) and Vidal (1991); to Mustelida by Wang et al. (2005); to Carnivora by Nowak (1991), Sach and Heizmann (2001) and Morales and Pickford (2005); to Arctoidea by Salesa et al. (2006) and Owen (2006); to Caniformia by Prevosti and Ferrero (2008); and to Musteloidea by Tedford (1976), Muizon (1982), Berta and Morgan (1985), Baskin (1998), Labs Hochstein (2007) and Robles et al. (2010).
Subtaxa
Acheronictis, Ailurictis, Anatolictis, Arikarictis, Brachyprotoma, Circamustela, Franconictis, Galictinae, Grisoninae, Hadrictis, Ictonychini, Ictonyx, Ischyrictis, Kinometaxia, Laphyctis, Leptarctinae, Luogale, Lutrina, Lutrinae, Marcetia, Matanomictis, Melidellavus, Melinae, Mellivora, Mellivorinae, Melogale (syn. Helictis), Mephitina, Mesomephitis, Miomephitis, Miomustela, Mustelavinae, Mustelina, Mustelinae, Mustellinae, Mydaus, Oligobuninae, Osmotherium, Palaeomeles, Paragale, Parataxidea, Perunium, Plesictis, Plesiogale, Plesiomeles, Poecilictis, Poecilogale, Potamotheriinae, Prepoecilogale, Presictis, Promellivora, Promephitis, Proputorius, Protarctos, Sabadellictis, Sinictis, Sivalictis, Taxidiinae, Taxodon, Tisisthenes, Trochotherium, Viverrina, Xenictis
Sister taxa
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1817 | Mustelidae Fischer |
| 1850 | Mustelidae Bonaparte p. 1 |
| 1883 | Mustelidae Flower p. 185 |
| 1889 | Mustelidae Cope p. 876 |
| 1891 | Mustelidae Flower and Lydekker p. 91 |
| 1963 | Mustelidae Scheffer and Rice p. 2 |
| 1974 | Mustelidae Hendey p. 68 |
| 1976 | Mustelidae Tedford p. 372 |
| 1982 | Mustelidae Muizon p. 262 figs. Fig. 1 |
| 1985 | Mustelidae Berta and Morgan p. 810 |
| 1988 | Mustelidae Carroll |
| 1991 | Mustelidae Nowak |
| 1991 | Mustelidae Vidal p. 6 |
| 1998 | Mustelidae Baskin p. 154 |
| 2001 | Mustelidae Sach and Heizmann p. 30 |
| 2005 | Mustelidae Morales and Pickford p. 235 |
| 2005 | Mustelidae Wang et al. p. 48 fig. 17 |
| 2006 | Mustelidae Owen p. 1002 |
| 2006 | Mustelidae Salesa et al. p. 381 |
| 2007 | Mustelidae Labs Hochstein p. 532 |
| 2008 | Mustelidae Prevosti and Ferrero p. 1172 |
| 2010 | Mustelidae Robles et al. p. 550 |
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