Mustelinae

Mustelinae
	American mink
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Mustelidae
Subfamily:	Mustelinae; G. Fischer de Waldheim, 1817
Genera
	Mustela; Neovison;
	Mustelinae range

Mustelinae is a subfamily of family Mustelidae, which includes weasels, ferrets and minks.[1][2]

It was formerly defined in a paraphyletic manner to also include wolverines, martens, and many other mustelids, to the exclusion of the otters (Lutrinae).[3]

Mustela sibirica

Extant species of Mustelinae

Subfamily Mustelinae

Image	Genus	Living species
	Mustela Linnaeus, 1758 (weasels, ferrets, European mink and stoats)	Amazon weasel, Mustela africana Mountain weasel, Mustela altaica Stoat or ermine, Mustela erminea Steppe polecat, Mustela eversmannii Colombian weasel, Mustela felipei Long-tailed weasel, Mustela frenata Japanese weasel, Mustela itatsi Yellow-bellied weasel, Mustela kathiah European mink, Mustela lutreola Indonesian mountain weasel, Mustela lutreolina Black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes Least weasel, Mustela nivalis Malayan weasel, Mustela nudipes European polecat, Mustela putorius Domesticated ferret, Mustela putorius furo Siberian weasel, Mustela sibirica Back-striped weasel, Mustela strigidorsa Egyptian weasel, Mustela subpalmata
	Neovison Baryshnikov & Abramov, 1997	American mink, Neovison vison Sea mink, Neovison macrodon (19th century †)

Some of the fashion furs come from this subfamily: ermine, weasel, mink and polecat.[4]

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