Guloninae

Guloninae[2][3] is a subfamily of the mammal family Mustelidae distributed across Eurasia and the Americas. It includes martens and the fisher, tayra and wolverine.[2][3] These genera were formerly included within a paraphyletic definition of the mustelid subfamily Mustelinae.[4]

Guloninae
Yellow-throated marten (M. flavigula)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Mustelidae
Subfamily: Guloninae
J.E.Gray, 1825[1]
Genera
Synonyms

Most gulonine species are arboreal to a degree. Some of the fashion furs come from this subfamily, e.g. sable, marten.[5]

Species

Extant species

ImageGenusLiving species
Eira Hamilton Smith, 1842
Gulo Linnaeus, 1758
Martes Pinel, 1792 (sable and martens)
Pekania Gray, 1865

Extinct species

Plesiogulo? Zdansky, 1924 [6][7]

  • P. brachygnathus (Schlosser, 1903)
  • P. botori Haile-Selassie, Hlusko & Howell, 2004
  • P. crassa Teilhard de Chardin, 1945
  • P. marshalli (Martin, 1928)
  • P. lindsayi Harrison, 1981
  • P. monspessulanus Viret, 1939
  • P. praecocidens Kurtén, 1970

References

  1. Gray, J.E. (1825). "Outline of an attempt at the disposition of the Mammalia into tribes and families with a list of the genera apparently appertaining to each tribe". Annals of Philosophy (New Series). 10: 337–344.
  2. Nascimento, F. O. do (2014). "On the correct name for some subfamilies of Mustelidae (Mammalia, Carnivora)". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo). 54 (21): 307–313. doi:10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.21.
  3. 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.
  4. Koepfli KP, Deere KA, Slater GJ, et al. (2008). "Multigene phylogeny of the Mustelidae: Resolving relationships, tempo and biogeographic history of a mammalian adaptive radiation". BMC Biol. 6: 4–5. doi:10.1186/1741-7007-6-10. PMC 2276185. PMID 18275614.
  5. "History of Fur in Fashion: Introduction". 4 December 2011.
  6. Valenciano, Alberto; Govender, Romala (2020-06-01). "New insights into the giant mustelids (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Langebaanweg fossil site (West Coast Fossil Park, South Africa, early Pliocene)". PeerJ. 8: e9221. doi:10.7717/peerj.9221. ISSN 2167-8359.
  7. Samuels, Joshua X.; Bredehoeft, Keila E.; Wallace, Steven C. (2018-04-18). "A new species of Gulo from the Early Pliocene Gray Fossil Site (Eastern United States); rethinking the evolution of wolverines". PeerJ. 6. doi:10.7717/peerj.4648. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 5910791. PMID 29682423.
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