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Zorillas, Grisons, and Allies
Ictonychinae
Ictonychinae is a subfamily of the mammal family Mustelidae found mainly in the Neotropics (3 species) and Africa (3 species), with one Eurasian member. It includes the grisons, Patagonian weasel, striped polecats, African striped weasel and marbled polecat, respectively. These genera were formerly included within a paraphyletic definition of the mustelid subfamily Mustelinae.
6 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first · about 7 known species
Grisons
genusGalictis
Zorillas
genusIctonyx
Marbled Weasels
genusVormela
Striped Weasels
genusPoecilogale
Saharan Striped Polecats
genusPoecilictis
Patagonian Weasels
genusLyncodon
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 846246.