Genus of mustelids
Neogale is a genus of mustelid native to the Americas , ranging from Alaska south to Bolivia . Members of this genus are known as New World weasels .
Members of this genus were formerly classified into the genera Mustela and Neovison , but many studies had previously recovered several American species of Mustela , as well as both species within Neovison , to comprise a monophyletic clade distinct from all other members of Mustelinae.[2] [3] A 2021 study found this clade to have diverged from Mustela during the Late Miocene , between 11.8 - 13.4 million years ago, with all members within the clade being more closely related to one another than to any of the other species in Mustela , and gave it the name Neogale , originally coined by John Edward Gray .[1] The American Society of Mammalogists later accepted this change.[4]
New World weasels
Taxonomy of Neogale [5]
There are 5 recent species in the genus, 4 extant and 1 extinct:[4]
^ a b Patterson, Bruce D.; Ramírez-Chaves, Héctor E.; Vilela, Júlio F.; Soares, André E. R.; Grewe, Felix (2021). "On the nomenclature of the American clade of weasels (Carnivora: Mustelidae)" . Journal of Animal Diversity . 3 (2): 1–8. doi :10.52547/JAD.2021.3.2.1 . ISSN 2676-685X . S2CID 236299740 .
^ Koepfli, Klaus-Peter; Deere, K.A.; Slater, G.J.; Begg, C.; Begg, K.; Grassman, L.; Lucherini, M.; Veron, G.; Wayne, R.K. (February 2008). "Multigene phylogeny of the Mustelidae: Resolving relationships, tempo and biogeographic history of a mammalian adaptive radiation" . BMC Biology . 6 : 10. doi :10.1186/1741-7007-6-10 . PMC 2276185 . PMID 18275614 .
^ Law, C. J.; Slater, G. J.; Mehta, R. S. (2018-01-01). "Lineage Diversity and Size Disparity in Musteloidea: Testing Patterns of Adaptive Radiation Using Molecular and Fossil-Based Methods" . Systematic Biology . 67 (1): 127–144. doi :10.1093/sysbio/syx047 . PMID 28472434 .
^ a b "Neogale " . ASM Mammal Diversity Database . American Society of Mammalogists . Retrieved 2021-07-01 .
^ Nyakatura, K.; Bininda-Emonds, O. R. P. (2012). "Updating the evolutionary history of Carnivora (Mammalia): a new species-level supertree complete with divergence time estimates" . BMC Biology . 10 (#12): 12. doi :10.1186/1741-7007-10-12 . PMC 3307490 . PMID 22369503 .
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