Conepatus leuconotus telmalestes Bailey, 1905:203
Big-Thicket hog nosed skunk, Swamp hog-nosed skunk, White-backed skunk
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Conepatus mesoleucus telmalestes Bailey, 1905:203
Conservation Status
Extinct (Schmidly & Bradley 2016; Schmidly et al., 2022)
Last record: 1905 (Dragoo & Sheffield, 2009:6)
Distribution
Big-Thicket, Hardin & Liberty counties, Texas (eastern), USA
Type locality: Big Thicket, 7 miles northeast of Sour Lake, Hardin County, Texas (Schmidly et al., 2023:43)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
USNM 135098
USNM 136549
USNM 136550
USNM 136551
USNM 136533
USNM 136771
USNM 136772
USNM 136989
USNM 136990
USNM 140358
USNM 140359
USNM 140360
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bailey, V. E. (1905). Biological survey of Texas. North American Fauna 25: 1-222.
Other references:
Cuarón, A. D., Reid, F. and Helgen, K. (2008). Conepatus leuconotus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T41632A10523996. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T41632A10523996.en. Downloaded on 26 January 2016.
Dragoo, J. W., Honeycutt, R. L. and Schmidly, D. J. (2003). Taxonomic status of white-backed hog-nosed skunks, genus Conepatus (Carnivora: Mephitidae). Journal of Mammalogy 84: 159-176.
Dragoo, Jerry W. and Sheffield, Steven R. (2009). Conepatus leuconotus (Carnivora: Mephitidae). Mammalian Species 827: 1-8.
Meaney, C. A., Ruggles, A. K. and Beauvais, G. P. (2006). American Hog-nosed Skunk (Conepatus leuconotus): a technical conservation assessment. Available at: http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/projects/scp/assessments/americanhognosedskunk.pdf
Schmidly, David J. (1983). Texas mammals east of the Balcones Fault. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX.
Schmidly, David J. and Bradley, Robert D. (2016). The Mammals of Texas. University of Texas Press.
Schmidly, David J., Bradley, Robert D. and Bradley, Lisa C. (2022). Texas Natural History in the 21st Century. Lubbock: Texas Tech Press.
Schmidly, David J., Bradley, Robert D., Bradley, Lisa C. and Yancey, Franklin D. II (eds.). (2023). Taxonomic Catalogs for the Recent Terrestrial Vertebrates (Species and Subspecies) Described from Texas. Special Publications of the Museum of Texas Tech University 77: iii + 385 pp.
Schreiber, A., Wirth, R., Riffel, M. and Van Rompaey, H. (1989). Weasels, Civets, Mongooses, and their Relatives: An Action Plan for the Conservation of Mustelids and Viverrids. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. 99 pp.
http://www.carnivoreconservation.org/files/actionplans/weasels_civets_mongooses.pdf