Mustela sibirica

Pallas, 1773

Siberian Weasel

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Location:Taiwan, Nantou county, Yushan National ParkDate taken:Mar 31, 2008

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 2566

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Carnivora
Suborder : Caniformia
Infraorder : Arctoidea
Parvorder : Mustelida
Family : Mustelidae
Subfamily : Mustelinae
Genus : Mustela
Subgenus : Mustela

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Pallas, P.S. 1773. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Zweyter Theil. Erstes Buch vom Jahr 1770. Kayserliche Academie der Wissenschaften, Saint Petersburg, 744 pp.

Authority publication link

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k97334n/f706.item

Original name as described

Mustela sibirica

Type material

untraced (number not known)

Type kind

nonexistent

Type locality

Russia.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic · Indomalaya

Country distribution

Russia · Mongolia · China · North Korea · South Korea · Japan · Taiwan · Pakistan · India · Nepal · Bhutan · Myanmar · Laos · Thailand

Taxonomy notes

the taxon subhemachalana distributed through the Himalayas may be a distinct species, but given that only morphometric data has been used to distinguish the two taxa and genetic data is needed to better support the species recognition, the taxon is not recognized here; subhemachalana has also not been recognized but subsequent authors

Taxonomy notes citation

Abramov, A.V., Puzachenko, A.Yu. and Masuda, R. 2018. Cranial variation in the Siberian weasel Mustela sibirica (Carnivora, Mustelidae) and its possible taxonomic implications. Zoological Studies 57(14):1-10. doi:10.6620/ZS.2018.57-14

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005877

Country distribution map

The map below provides a general overview. Most species inhabit only specific regions within countries. Hover over the highlighted regions to see the country name.

Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 61 names and synonyms.

Mustela sibirica

Pallas, 1773

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

sibirica

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

untraced (number not known)

Type kind

nonexistent

Authority page

701

Authority page URI

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k97334n/f706.item

Authority publication

Saint Petersburg

Name usages

  1. Pallas (1773:701, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k97334n/f706.item) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68568)
  2. Müller (1776:33, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51217666) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38532)
  3. Erxleben (1777:470, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15873267) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36060)
  4. Borowski (1780:60, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28347018) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67757)
  5. Zimmermann (1783:164) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69242)
  6. Boddaert (1785:87, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28230051) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35384)
  7. Gmelin (1788:98, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25751318) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35943)
  8. Kerr (1792:180, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38664204) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36283)
  9. Wolf (1796:282) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/72410)
  10. Turton (1802:61, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25772917) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69249)
  11. Treviranus (1802:207, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11026073) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/72409)
  12. Treviranus (1803:175, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11028203) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/41587)
  13. Goldfuss (1809:245, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47498079) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34654)
  14. Pallas (1811:4, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29113937) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37182)
  15. Fischer (1814:xi, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29130072) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/12226)
  16. Illiger (1815:64, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11080920) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38688)
  17. Desmarest (1821:178, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39523942) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34459)
  18. Schinz (1821:206, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51528965) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37604)
  19. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1826:212, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25385624) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/41027)
  20. Lesson (1827:145, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207613) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)
  21. Fischer (1829:220) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)
  22. Eichwald (1831:380, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35753045) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67585)
  23. Smith (1842:187, https://books.google.com/books?id=DvE_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA187) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67141)
  24. Schrenck (1859:37, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33479180) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67819)
  25. Radde (1861:677, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11850867) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68932)
  26. Radde (1862:45, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16012523) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68933)
  27. Blyth (1863:68, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47534696) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37155)
  28. Murray (1866:328, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15580324) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39798)
  29. David (1871:92, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13954607) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/62819)
  30. Nikol'skiy (1883:171) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67821)
  31. Matschie (1912:97) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67351)
  32. Kuroda (1935:278) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9228)
  33. Anthony (1941:87, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2771936) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/16202)
  34. Bannikov (1952:36) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68882)
  35. Stroganov (1962:285) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69465)
  36. Corbet & Hill (1980:96) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  37. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:263) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  38. Corbet & Hill (1991:105) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  39. Wozencraft (1993:324) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69009)
  40. Flynn, Finarelli, Zehr, Hsu & Nedbal (2005:336) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/478)
  41. Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)
  42. O'Brien, Menninger & Nash (2006:487) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/7321)
  43. Smith & Xie (2008:446) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64149)
  44. Wilson & Mittermeier (2009:654) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67177)
  45. Sato, Wolsan, Prevosti, D'Elía, Begg, Begg, Hosoda, Campbell & Suzuki (2012:750) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/7523)
  46. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #41659) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  47. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #41659) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  48. Kumar, Sharma & Khan (2022:9) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/66220)
  49. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005877) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  50. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/41659/45214744) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Martes Sibirica

(Muirhead, 1819)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

sibirica

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

416

Authority publication

Edinburgh

Name usages

Muirhead (1819:416) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69481)

Mustela Siberica

Griffith, 1822

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

siberica

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

130

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53016371

Authority publication

London

Name usages

Griffith (1822:130, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53016371) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68342)

Mustela (Putorius) Subhemachalanus

B. H. Hodgson, 1837

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

subhemachalana

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1843.1.12.12

Type kind

lectotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/82bf4d90-f97d-4c3b-a6cf-a0a3010c8980

Authority page

563

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40077540

Authority publication

Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal

Name usages

  1. Hodgson (1842:280, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40000003) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37716)
  2. Hodgson (1844:287, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46405522) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/65716)

Mustela Hemachalanus

B. H. Hodgson, 1841

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

hemachalanus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

214

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37126978

Authority publication

Calcutta Journal of Natural History

Name usages

Hodgson (1841:214, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37126978) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35561)

Mustela Canigula

B. H. Hodgson, 1842

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

canigula

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1845.1.8.253

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/7514b657-bf0d-469e-9264-681743a6aa1b

Authority page

279

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40000002

Authority publication

Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal

Name usages

  1. Hodgson (1842:279, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40000002) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37716)
  2. Hodgson (1844:287, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46405522) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/65716)
  3. Horsfield (1857:398, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12860972) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36026)
  4. Murray (1866:328, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15580324) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39798)

Mustela humeralis

E. Blyth, 1842

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

humeralis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

99

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39999812

Authority publication

Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal

Name usages

Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)

Putorius Sibiricus

(Lesson, 1842)

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

sibirica

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

70

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

  1. Lesson (1842:70) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)
  2. Barrett-Hamilton (1904:390, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18619129) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/18247)
  3. Thomas (1908:53 (footnote), https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31209554) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/13984)

Mustela Hodgsoni

J. E. Gray, 1843

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

hodgsoni

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1841.934

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/c6e9cdf1-67b3-48a9-b2c2-29bc7ec5c941

Authority page

118

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2326279

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Mustela Horsfieldii

J. E. Gray, 1843

Family

Mustelidae

Root name

horsfieldii

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1842.4.29.57, BMNH:Mamm:1845.12.29.1

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/2b9c8525-fed9-4dc3-af6b-cfe43242dfe9 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/e01c2e86-4c18-4883-b76f-91d81466bca0

Authority page

118

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2326279

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Murray (1866:328, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15580324) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39798)
  2. Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)

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