weasel family and skunks

		|	2000s
Mustelidae	Melinae	|	Taxidiinae	American badger	North America	Taxidea
Mustelidae	Melinae	|	Melinae	hog badger	South East Asia	Arctonyx
		|		Eurasian badger	Eurasia	Meles
Mustelidae	Melinae	|	Helictidinae	ferret-badger	South East Asia	Melogale
Mustelidae	Mellivorinae	|	Mellivorinae	honey badger, or ratel	Africa to India	Mellivora
Mustelidae	Mustelinae	|	Mustelinae	weasels, mink, ferret, ermine, polecat	Americas, Eurasia, North Africa,	Mustela
		|			introduced: New Zealand
	ex Mustela	|	2021	New World weasels, mink	Americas, introduced: Eurasia	Neogale
Mustelidae	Mustelinae	|	Guloninae	tayra	Latin America	Eira
		|		wolverine	northern boreal forests, tundra	Gulo
	ex Martes	|		fisher	North America	Pekania
		|		marten	Northern America, Eurasia	Martes
Mustelidae	Mustelinae	|	Ictonychinae	grison	Latin America	Galictis
	incl. Poecilictis	|		striped polecat	Africa	Ictonyx
		|		Patagonian weasel	Southern South America	Lyncodon
		|		African striped weasel	sub-Saharan Africa	Poecilogale
		|		marbled polecat	Southeast Europe, Asia	Vormela
Mustelidae	Lutrinae	|	Lutrinae	sea otter	North Pacific Ocean	Enhydra
incl. Amblonyx, Paraonyx		|		clawless otter	sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia	Aonyx
		|		river otter	Americas	Lontra
		|		Eurasian otter	Eurasia, North Africa	Lutra
	ex Lutra	|		spotted-necked otter	sub-Saharan Africa	Hydrictis
		|		smooth-coated otter	India, Southeast Asia	Lutrogale
		|		giant otter	Northern South America	Pteronura
Mustelidae	Mephitinae	|	Mephitidae	hog-nosed skunk	Latin America	Conepatus
		|		spotted skunk	North, Central America	Spilogale
		|		hooded and striped skunk	North, Central America	Mephitis
	Melinae	|		stink badger	Malay Archipelago, Palawan	Mydaus
	incl. Suillotaxus	|

Arctoidea (Pinnipedia added in the late 1980s)

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