IRMNG - Mephitis Geoffroy & Cuvier, 1795

IRMNG taxon details

Mephitis Geoffroy & Cuvier, 1795

IRMNG_ID

1295131 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1295131)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Mephitidae Bonaparte, 1845

Synonymised names

Chincha Lesson, 1842 · unaccepted

Leucomitra Howell, 1901 · unaccepted

Mammephitisus Herrera, 1899 · unaccepted

Mephites Swainson, 1835 · unaccepted

Mephites Gray, 1847 · unaccepted

Mephritis Gray, 1821 · unaccepted

Viverra Schreber, 1776 · unaccepted

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Species Mephitis macroura Lichtenstein, 1832
Species Mephitis mephitis (Schreber, 1776)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Mag. Encyclop., 2 (6)
page(s): 187 [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomic remark Authority cited elsewhere as É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & G. Cuvier, 1795.

Taxonomic remark Authority cited elsewhere as É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & G. Cuvier, 1795. [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2024). Mephitis Geoffroy & Cuvier, 1795. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1295131 on 2025-01-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

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original description Mag. Encyclop., 2 (6)
page(s): 187 [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

basis of record SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 [details]

verified source for family Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. [details]

name verified source Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

current name source Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. [details]

extant flag source SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB [details]

habitat flag source as per family (except Lontra, Enhydra) [details]

original description (of Leucomitra Howell, 1901) North Amer. Fauna, No. 20
page(s): 39 [details]

original description (of Chincha Lesson, 1842) N. Tab. Règne Anim.
page(s): 67 [details]

original description (of Mephites Swainson, 1835) Hist. Quadrup.
page(s): 362 [details]

original description (of Mephritis Gray, 1821) London Med. Repos., 15
page(s): 301 [details]

Unreviewed

Taxonomic remark Authority cited elsewhere as É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & G. Cuvier, 1795. [details]

Type species as cited Viverra mephitis Schreber, 1776. [details]

To BioNames database (from synonym Leucomitra Howell, 1901)
To ION (Index to Organism Names) (from synonym Leucomitra Howell, 1901)