Oops! Sorry. I grabbed my total off Wikipedia, and forgot that it didn't include skunks/stink badgers. Where do you get 58? I wasn't counting the extinct Sea mink, only living species. Is there one missing from their list of 57? Either way my Mephitidae total is a tidy 8/12 for 67% and my Mustelidae/Mephitidae combo total is 42/69 or 42/70 (if you can tell me the missing species) for 61% or 60%...I really hope to have that extra 1%...
The list of living species on Wikipedia actually comes to 58 species, not 57 - whoever wrote that bit obviously miscounted the number of species in the list!
Wikipedia said:
Hog badger, A. collaris
Tayra, E. barbara
Greater grison, G. vittata
Lesser grison, G. cuja
Wolverine, G. gulo
Striped polecat, I. striatus
Saharan striped polecat, I. libycus
Patagonian weasel, L. patagonicus
American marten, M. americana
Yellow-throated marten, M. flavigula
Beech marten, M. foina
Nilgiri marten, M. gwatkinsii
Pine marten, M. martes
Japanese marten, M. melampus
Fisher, M. pennanti
Sable, M. zibellina
Japanese badger, M. anakuma
Asian badger, M. leucurus
European badger, M. meles
Honey badger, M. capensis
Bornean ferret-badger, M. everetti
Chinese ferret-badger, M. moschata
Javan ferret-badger, M. orientalis
Burmese ferret-badger, M. personata
Vietnam Ferret-badger, M. cucphuongensis
Amazon weasel, M. africana
Mountain weasel, M. altaica
Ermine (stoat), M. erminea
Steppe polecat, M. eversmannii
Colombian weasel, M. felipei
Long-tailed weasel, M. frenata
Japanese weasel, M. itatsi
Yellow-bellied weasel, M. kathiah
European mink, M. lutreola
Indonesian mountain weasel, M. lutreolina
Black-footed ferret, M. nigripes
Least weasel, M. nivalis
Malayan weasel, M. nudipes
European polecat, M. putorius
Siberian weasel, M. sibirica
Back-striped weasel, M. strigidorsa
Egyptian weasel, M. subpalmata
American mink, N. vison
African striped weasel, P. albinucha
American badger, T. taxus
Marbled polecat, V. peregusna
African clawless otter, A. capensis
Oriental small-clawed otter, A. cinerea
Sea otter, E. lutris
North American river otter, L. canadensis
Southern river otter, L. provocax
Neotropical river otter, L. longicaudis
Marine otter, L. felina
European otter, L. lutra
Hairy-nosed otter, L. sumatrana
Spotted-necked otter, H. maculicollis
Smooth-coated otter, L. perspicillata
Giant otter, P. brasiliensis
Count them yourself there is another possible addition to the list, too - Congo Clawless Otter, which some now class at specific level.
As for other photo lists, I would be curious to see your feline list - this is the only thing where I have even the faintest chance of having something you lack!
As for other photo lists, I would be curious to see your feline list - this is the only thing where I have even the faintest chance of having something you lack!
Even if you don't have species I don't if you wanted to see any other photos of random carnivores let me know what group you'd be interested in seeing my list of. My personal favorite group is the former Viverridae before it got broken up.
I can't believe I forgot (Vormela peregusna) Marbled polecat for my own list! Somehow it wasn't on my life list word document (so I was actually shorting myself in my grand total!). Every once and a while I find something I left off by mistake, it's almost as fun as seeing a new species for the first time! So for Mustelids I'm actually at 35/58 (60.34%)! Yesss over 60%!
As suspected, I have conducted myself much better when it comes to feline species! I have taken the list of the 41 currently recognised species from Wikipeda, and species I have seen are in bold - although I have corrected one or two genera.
So my total currently stands at 25, which I am entirely pleased with some argument could be made for my having seen a 26th, the Amur Leopard Cat, as I am convinced this will eventually turn out to deserve specific status. Disregarding this taxon, I have seen 61% of the Felidae.
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I have done a lot, lot worse when it comes to the "historical" Viverridae, even when one includes the Herpestidae, Nandinidae, Prionodontidae and Eupleridae in the total
So that is a total of 9/82, or 11% one wishes that some of the unstoppable tide of meerkats would be replaced with a greater variety of herpestids. The above total will hopefully improve by a few taxa within the next year, though.
Being in Europe you've got a chance to see some species off both of those lists I couldn't see unless I went to Europe or their home range...and it's about time you saw a carnivore I haven't haha:
Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) at Jerez Zoo
Egyptian Mongoose at Zoos in Italy, Spain and Portugal
Gambian Mongoose at Zlin Zoo (I was so close to driving to this zoo for this mongoose, but my windshield cracked that day, so I decided to skip it, UGHHH)
Marsh Mongoose at Randers Zoo and Curraghs Wildlife Park
Any of those in the cards for you?
You could add some Mustelids I've never seen with:
Sable at a number of Russian Zoos
Asian Badger at Praha Zoo, or Kiev Zoo
Steppe Polecat at some Russian Zoos
What's it gonna be??
And while I'm at it, here a list of all of other species of carnivores I've seen that we haven't covered yet, care to compare haha? Maybe there is already a carnivore you've seen that I haven't:
1.) (Vulpes chama) Cape fox
2.) (Vulpes corsac) corsac fox
3.) (Vulpes lagopus) arctic fox
4.) (Vulpes macrotis) kit fox
5.) (Vulpes velox) swift fox
6.) (Vulpes vulpes) red fox
7.) (Vulpes zerda) fennec fox
8.) (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) gray fox
9.) (Urocyon littoralis) island fox
10.) (Cerdocyon thous) Crab-eating Fox
11.) (Lycalopex culpaeus) Colpeo Fox
12.) (Lycalopex griseus) Argentine grey fox
13.) (Lycalopex gymnocercus) pampas fox
14.) (Lycalopex sechurae) Sechura Fox
15.) (Lycalopex vetulus) hoary fox
16.) (Canis aureus) golden jackal
17.) (Canis latrans) coyote
18.) (Canis lupus) gray wolf
19.) (Canis mesomelas) black-backed jackal
20.) (Canis rufus) red wolf
21.) (Chrysocyon brachyurus) maned wolf
22.) (Cuon alpinus) dhole
23.) (Lycaon pictus) African wild dog
24.) (Nyctereutes procyonoides) raccoon dog
25.) (Otocyon megalotis) bat-eared fox
26.) (Speothos venaticus) bush dog
27.) (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) giant panda
28.) (Tremarctos ornatus) spectacled bear
29.) (Ursus americanus) American black bear
30.) (Ursus arctos) brown bear
31.) (Ursus malayanus) sun bear
32.) (Ursus maritimus) polar bear
33.) (Ursus thibetanus) Asian black bear
34.) (Ursus ursinus) sloth bear
35.) (Ailurus fulgens) red panda
36.) (Bassaricyon gabbii) Bushy-tailed Olingo
37.) (Bassariscus astutus) ringtail
38.) (Bassariscus sumichrasti) Central American Cacomistle
39.) (Nasua narica) white-nosed coati
40.) (Nasua nasua) Ring-tailed Coati
41.) (Potos flavus) kinkajou
42.) (Procyon cancrivorus) Crab-eating Raccoon
43.) (Procyon lotor) Common Raccoon
44.) (Hyaena brunnea) brown hyena
45.) (Hyaena hyaena) Striped Hyena
46.) (Crocuta crocuta) spotted hyena
47.) (Proteles cristata) aardwolf
48.) (Odobenus rosmarus) walrus
49.) (Eumetopias jubatus) Steller sea lion
50.) (Neophoca cinerea) Australian Sea Lion
51.) (Otaria byronia) South American sea lion
52.) (Zalophus californianus) California sea lion
53.) (Zalophus wollebaeki) Galapagos sea lion
54.) (Arctocephalus australis) South American Fur Seal
55.) (Arctocephalus galapagoensis) Galapagos Fur Seal
56.) (Arctocephalus forsteri) New Zealand fur seal
57.) (Arctocephalus pusillus) South African fur seal
58.) (Arctocephalus townsendi) Guadalupe fur seal
59.) (Arctocephalus tropicalis) subantarctic fur seal
60.) (Callorhinus ursinus) Northern fur seal
61.) (Halichoerus grypus) Gray Seal
62.) (Hydrurga leptonyx) leopard seal
63.) (Monachus schauinslandi) Hawaiian monk seal
64.) (Mirounga angustirostris) Northern elephant seal
65.) (Mirounga leonine) Southern elephant seal
66.) (Pagophilus groenlandicus) harp seal
67.) (Phoca vitulina) harbor seal
68.) (Pusa hispida) ringed seal
69.) (Pusa sibirica) Baikal seal
Being in Europe you've got a chance to see some species off both of those lists I couldn't see unless I went to Europe or their home range...and it's about time you saw a carnivore I haven't haha:
Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) at Jerez Zoo
Egyptian Mongoose at Zoos in Italy, Spain and Portugal
Gambian Mongoose at Zlin Zoo (I was so close to driving to this zoo for this mongoose, but my windshield cracked that day, so I decided to skip it, UGHHH)
Marsh Mongoose at Randers Zoo and Curraghs Wildlife Park
Any of those in the cards for you?
You could add some Mustelids I've never seen with:
Sable at a number of Russian Zoos
Asian Badger at Praha Zoo, or Kiev Zoo
Steppe Polecat at some Russian Zoos
I imagine I will get to Jerez someday - hopefully they will still have the lynx onshow by then the Marsh Mongoose at Curraghs is not too far away from me, but I believe the listing on ZTL may be an artifact as it was very elderly the last time anyone from here visited some years ago - so it may have died and gone unnoticed in the intervening time.
As far as the Steppe Polecat goes, it is a very frustrating species - a small farm-type collection not far at all from me kept both this and Canadian Lynx until a year or two ago, but due to their not promoting this fact much I didn't realise they had anything special and so never visited.
I believe you inadvertently looked at "former holdings" on ZTL for the Asian Badger - neither of the collections you stated have had the species in years.
As far as the Steppe Polecat goes, it is a very frustrating species - a small farm-type collection not far at all from me kept both this and Canadian Lynx until a year or two ago, but due to their not promoting this fact much I didn't realise they had anything special and so never visited.
And while I'm at it, here a list of all of other species of carnivores I've seen that we haven't covered yet, care to compare haha? Maybe there is already a carnivore you've seen that I haven't:
1.) (Vulpes chama) Cape fox 2.) (Vulpes corsac) corsac fox
3.) (Vulpes lagopus) arctic fox
4.) (Vulpes macrotis) kit fox
5.) (Vulpes velox) swift fox 6.) (Vulpes vulpes) red fox
7.) (Vulpes zerda) fennec fox
8.) (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) gray fox
9.) (Urocyon littoralis) island fox
10.) (Cerdocyon thous) Crab-eating Fox
11.) (Lycalopex culpaeus) Colpeo Fox
12.) (Lycalopex griseus) Argentine grey fox
13.) (Lycalopex gymnocercus) pampas fox
14.) (Lycalopex sechurae) Sechura Fox
15.) (Lycalopex vetulus) hoary fox
16.) (Canis aureus) golden jackal
17.) (Canis latrans) coyote 18.) (Canis lupus) gray wolf
19.) (Canis mesomelas) black-backed jackal
20.) (Canis rufus) red wolf 21.) (Chrysocyon brachyurus) maned wolf
22.) (Cuon alpinus) dhole
23.) (Lycaon pictus) African wild dog
24.) (Nyctereutes procyonoides) raccoon dog
25.) (Otocyon megalotis) bat-eared fox
26.) (Speothos venaticus) bush dog
27.) (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) giant panda
28.) (Tremarctos ornatus) spectacled bear
29.) (Ursus americanus) American black bear
30.) (Ursus arctos) brown bear
31.) (Ursus malayanus) sun bear
32.) (Ursus maritimus) polar bear
33.) (Ursus thibetanus) Asian black bear
34.) (Ursus ursinus) sloth bear
35.) (Ailurus fulgens) red panda
36.) (Bassaricyon gabbii) Bushy-tailed Olingo
37.) (Bassariscus astutus) ringtail
38.) (Bassariscus sumichrasti) Central American Cacomistle 39.) (Nasua narica) white-nosed coati
40.) (Nasua nasua) Ring-tailed Coati
41.) (Potos flavus) kinkajou
42.) (Procyon cancrivorus) Crab-eating Raccoon 43.) (Procyon lotor) Common Raccoon
44.) (Hyaena brunnea) brown hyena
45.) (Hyaena hyaena) Striped Hyena
46.) (Crocuta crocuta) spotted hyena
47.) (Proteles cristata) aardwolf
48.) (Odobenus rosmarus) walrus
49.) (Eumetopias jubatus) Steller sea lion
50.) (Neophoca cinerea) Australian Sea Lion 51.) (Otaria byronia) South American sea lion
52.) (Zalophus californianus) California sea lion
53.) (Zalophus wollebaeki) Galapagos sea lion 54.) (Arctocephalus australis) South American Fur Seal
55.) (Arctocephalus galapagoensis) Galapagos Fur Seal
56.) (Arctocephalus forsteri) New Zealand fur seal
57.) (Arctocephalus pusillus) South African fur seal
58.) (Arctocephalus townsendi) Guadalupe fur seal
59.) (Arctocephalus tropicalis) subantarctic fur seal
60.) (Callorhinus ursinus) Northern fur seal 61.) (Halichoerus grypus) Gray Seal
62.) (Hydrurga leptonyx) leopard seal
63.) (Monachus schauinslandi) Hawaiian monk seal
64.) (Mirounga angustirostris) Northern elephant seal
65.) (Mirounga leonine) Southern elephant seal
66.) (Pagophilus groenlandicus) harp seal 67.) (Phoca vitulina) harbor seal
68.) (Pusa hispida) ringed seal
69.) (Pusa sibirica) Baikal seal
The only thing I *might* have seen that you have not, and which is currently classed as a subspecies due to bugger-all research having been done on them though I suspect it will turn out to merit full specific status, is the Southern Aardwolf.
