ADW: Mustela: CLASSIFICATION

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Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Eumetazoa (metazoans)
  - Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
    - Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
      - Phylum Chordata (chordates)
        
        Craniata (craniates)
        
        Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
        
        Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
        
        Euteleostomi (bony vertebrates)
        
        Class Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fishes and terrestrial vertebrates)
        
        Tetrapoda (tetrapods)
        
        Amniota (amniotes)
        
        Synapsida (synapsids)
        
        Class Mammalia (mammals)
        
        Subclass Theria (Therian mammals)
        
        Infraclass Eutheria (placental mammals)
        
        Order Carnivora (carnivores)
        
        Suborder Caniformia (caniform carnivores)
        
        Family Mustelidae (badgers, otters, weasels, and relatives)
        
        Subfamily Mustelinae (martens, weasels, wolverines, and relatives)
        
        Genus Mustela (ermines, ferrets, minks, and weasels)
        
        Species Mustela africana (tropical weasel)
        
        Species Mustela altaica (mountain weasel)
        
        Species Mustela erminea (ermine)
        
        Species Mustela eversmanii (steppe polecat)
        
        Species Mustela felipei (Colombian weasel)
        
        Species Mustela frenata (long-tailed weasel)
        
        Species Mustela itatsi (Japanese weasel)
        
        Species Mustela kathiah (yellow-bellied weasel)
        
        Species Mustela lutreola (European mink)
        
        Species Mustela lutreolina (Indonesian mountain weasel)
        
        Species Mustela nigripes (black-footed ferret)
        
        Species Mustela nivalis (least weasel)
        
        Species Mustela nudipes (Malayan weasel)
        
        Species Mustela putorius (European polecat)
        
        Species Mustela sibirica (Siberian weasel)
        
        Species Mustela strigidorsa (black-striped weasel)
        
        Species Mustela subpalmata (Egyptian weasel)

Confused by a class within a class or an order within an order? Please see our brief essay.

To cite this page: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2012. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.

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Mustelaermines, ferrets, minks, and weasels

Mustela
ermines, ferrets, minks, and weasels