Mustela

From Latin mūstēla (“weasel”), probably from mūs (“mouse”)

Mustela f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Mustelidae – the weasels.

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Deuterostomia - infrakingdom; Chordata - phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Tetrapoda - superclass; Mammalia - class; Theria - supercohort; Eutheria - infraclass; Carnivora - order; Caniformia - suborder; Mustelidae - family; Mustelinae - subfamily

• (genus): Mustela africana, Mustela altaica, Mustela erminea, Mustela eversmannii, Mustela felipei, Mustela frenata, Mustela kathiah, Mustela lutreola, Mustela lutreolina, Mustela macrodon, Mustela nigripes, Mustela nivalis, Mustela nudipes, Mustela putorius, Mustela sibirica, Mustela strigidorsa, Mustela vison ( ⇒ Neovison vison) - species

• Mustela on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mustela on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Mustela on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

From mūstēla (“weasel”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /muːsˈteː.la/, [muːsˈteː.ɫa]

Mūstēla m sg (genitive Mūstēlae); first declension

1. a Roman cognomen famously held by:
   1. Tamisius Mustela, a Roman retainer

First declension.

• Mustela in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray