Ferret-badger
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| Melogale | |
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| Mounted Burmese ferret-badger at the Natural History Museum of Genoa | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Mustelidae |
| Subfamily: | Melinae |
| Genus: | Melogale I. Saint-Hilaire, 1831 |
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| Melogale range | |
Ferret-badgers are the five species of mustelids of the genus Melogale.[1]
- Bornean Ferret-badger (Melogale everetti)
- Chinese Ferret-badger (Melogale moschata)
- Javan Ferret-badger (Melogale orientalis)
- Burmese Ferret-badger (Melogale personata)
- Vietnam Ferret-badger (Melogale cucphuongensis)
[edit] References
- ^ Wozencraft, W. Christopher (16 November 2005). "Order Carnivora (pp. 532-628)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). pp. 612-613. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=14001306.
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