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weasel

USFWS Mountain Prairie, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons / https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Mustela_nigripes_2…

IMAGE INFORMATION

Weasel

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

By 1796

Primary Source Reference:

A Scientific and Descriptive Catalogue of Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, 1796), p. 40

Notes:

Weasel species that inhabit North America are the American ermine (Mustela richardsonii), which this source lists separately on the same page) and the black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) , pictured here.

Specimen Type:

Dead/preserved

Peale's Common Name:

Weasel

Peale's Scientific Name:

nondescript