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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Mustelidae

WoRMS 136974ITIS 180545key worms:136974
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180545 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Chamitataxus avitus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Mustelidae
Photo · Alexis López Hernández · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The Mustelidae are a diverse family of carnivoran mammals, including weasels, badgers, otters, sea otters, polecats, martens, grisons and wolverines. Otherwise known as mustelids, they form the largest family in the suborder Caniformia of the order Carnivora with between 66 to 70 species in nine subfamilies.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2003 and 2020.R

2
observations
2
records
2003–2020
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:136974")