Authority citation: Blainville, H.-M.D. de. 1842. Des mustelas (g. Mustela, L.). Pp. 1–83 in Blainville, H.-M.D. de. 1839-1864. Ostéographie ou description iconographique comparée du squelette et du système dentaire des mammifères recents et fossiles pour servir de la base à la zoologie et à la géologie. Tome deuxième. Secundates. J. B. Baillière et Fils, Paris, not continuously paginated pp.
Authority publication link: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57983171
Original name as described: Mustela Patagonica
Nominal names: patagonicus (de Blainville, 1842) | anticola (Burmeister, 1869) [nomen nudum] | lujanensis (F. Ameghino, 1888) | thomasi (Cabrera, 1928)
Taxonomy
Subclass: Theria -- Infraclass: Placentalia -- Order: Carnivora -- Family: Mustelidae -- Subfamily: Ictonychinae
Type specimen voucher catalogue number: MNHN-ZM-AC-A2006
Type locality: Argentina.
Country distribution (coarse map shown below; most species exist in only part of countries): Argentina (ARG) | Chile (CHL)
Species Status: This species is currently living, it lives in wild habitats, its taxonomic status is currently accepted, and it is listed in MSW3 2005.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species status: Least concern
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