Mustela nigripes

– Extinct in the Wild

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

CARNIVORA

Family:

MUSTELIDAE

Scientific Name:

Mustela nigripes

Species Authority:

(Audubon & Bachman, 1851)

Common Name/s:

English	—	BLACK-FOOTED FERRET
French	—	PUTOIS À PIEDS NOIRS
Spanish	—	TURÓN PATINEGRO AMERICANO

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

EW ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Mustelid Specialist Group

History:

1965	-	"Very rare and believed to be decreasing in numbers" (Scott 1965)
1982	-	Endangered (Thornback and Jenkins 1982)
1986	-	Endangered (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1988	-	Endangered (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Endangered (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Endangered (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Regionally extinct:

Canada; United States

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Scott, P. (ed.) 1965. Section XIII. Preliminary List of Rare Mammals and Birds. In: The Launching of a New Ark, pp. 15–207. First Report of the President and Trustees of the World Wildlife Fund. An International Foundation for saving the world's wildlife and wild places 1961–1964. Collins, London.

Small Carnivore Specialist Group. For more information, see the Specialist Group website

Thornback, J. and Jenkins, M. 1982. The IUCN Mammal Red Data Book. Part 1: Threatened mammalian taxa of the Americas and the Australasian zoogeographic region (excluding Cetacea). IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Citation:	Mustelid Specialist Group 1996. Mustela nigripes. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 06 September 2008.
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