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Spotted skunk
Southern spotted skunk (S. angustifrons), western spotted skunk (S. gracilis) and eastern spotted skunk (S. putorius).
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Carnivora
Family:
Mephitidae
Genus:
Spilogale Gray, 1865[1]
Type species
Mephitis interrupta[2]
Linnaeus, 1758
Spotted skunk ranges
Spilogale gracilis Merriam, 1890
Spilogale putorius (Linnaeus, 1758)
Spilogale pygmaea Thomas, 1898
Spilogale angustifrons Howell, 1902
The genus Spilogale includes all skunks commonly known as spotted skunks. Currently, there are four accepted extant species: S. gracilis, S. putorius, S. pygmaea, and S. angustifrons.[3] New research, however, proposes that there may be up to seven.[4][better source needed][5][6]
^Gray, J. E. (1865). "Revision of the genera and species of Mustelidae contained in the British Museum". Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1865: 150.
^Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
^Kinlaw, A (1995). "Spilogale putorius". Mammalian Species. 511: 1–7. doi:10.2307/0.511.1.
^"Doubling the number of species of hand-standing spotted skunks".
^Magazine, Smithsonian; Langlois, Jill. "Scientists Identify Seven Species of Spotted Skunks, and They All Do Handstands Before They Spray". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
^McDonough, Molly M.; Ferguson, Adam W.; Dowler, Robert C.; Gompper, Matthew E.; Maldonado, Jesús E. (2020-10-25). Phylogenomic systematics of the spotted skunks (Carnivora, Mephitidae, Spilogale): Additional species diversity and Pleistocene climate change as a major driver of diversification (Report). pp. 2020.10.23.353045. doi:10.1101/2020.10.23.353045. S2CID 226229298.
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