Mustelidae

Mustelidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora
Family
Mustelidae

• FAMILY MUSTELIDAE (55 species in 24 genera)
• Subfamily Lutrinae (Otters)
  • Genus Amblonyx[?]
  • Genus Aonyx[?]
  • Genus Enhydra[?] (sea otter)
  • Genus Lontra[?]
  • Genus Lutra[?]
  • Genus Lutrogale[?]
  • Genus Pteronura[?]
• Subfamily Melinae (Badgers)
  • Genus Arctonyx[?]
  • Genus Meles[?]
  • Genus Melogale[?]
• Subfamily Mellivorinae (Ratels[?])
  • Genus Mellivora[?]
• Subfamily Taxidiinae (American badgers[?])
  • Genus Taxidea[?]
• Subfamily Mustelinae (someone check this; I moved it from Mephitidae)
  • Genus Eira[?]
  • Genus Galictis[?]
  • Genus Gulo - Wolverine
  • Genus Ictonyx[?]
  • Genus Lyncodon[?]
  • Genus Martes[?]
  • Genus Mustela[?] - Weasel
  • Genus Poecilogale[?]
  • Genus Vormela[?]

The skunks (Mephitinae) were moved into a new family, Mephitidae, following a convincing paper (Dragoo (http://www.dragoo.org) and Honeycutt, 1997, Journal of Mammalology, 78(2): 426-443), that shuffled these two families around somewhat based on DNA analyses.