Ferret-badger

Ferret-badger
Melogale
Mounted Burmese ferret-badger at the Natural History Museum of Genoa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Mustelidae
Subfamily: Melinae
Genus: Melogale
I. Saint-Hilaire, 1831
species
  • Melogale everetti
  • Melogale moschata
  • Melogale orientalis
  • Melogale personata
Melogale range

Ferret-badgers are the four species of mustelids of the genus Melogale.[1]

References

  1. ^ 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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