Least wheasel
| Least wheasel Temporal range: Late Pleistocene–Recent
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| Least wheasel at the British Wildlife Centre, Surrey, Ingland | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Faimily: | Mustelidae |
| Genus: | Mustela |
| Species: | M. nivalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Mustela nivalis | |
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| Global range o M. nivalis | |
The least wheasel (Mustela nivalis), eften simply cried wheasel, is the smawest member o the genus Mustela an o the faimily Mustelidae (as well as the smawest o the Carnivora), native tae Eurasie, North Americae an North Africae, tho it haes been introduced tae New Zealand, Australie, Maltae, Crete, Bermuda, Madeira Island, the Azores, the Canary Islands, Sao Tome, the Falkland Islands, Argentinae an Chile.[2]
References
eedit- ↑ Tikhonov, A.; Cavallini, P.; Maran, T.; Kranz, A.; Herrero, J.; Giannatos, G.; Stubbe, M.; Conroy, J.; Kryštufek, B.; Abramov, A.; et al. (2008). "Mustela nivalis". IUCN Reid Leet o Threatened Species. Version 2008. Internaitional Union for Conservation o Naitur. Retrieved 21 Mairch 2009. Cite has empty unkent parameter:
|last-author-amp=(help)CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) - ↑ LONG JL 2003. Introduced Mammals of the World: Their History, Distribution and Influence (Cabi Publishing) by John L. Long (ISBN 9780851997483)