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Western Spotted Skunk
Spilogale gracilis
Animas Drainage, Black Range, NM Here and on the following page.
Speciation determinations are always fluid. In “Phylogenomic systematics of the spotted skunks...”, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 22 July 2021, McDonough, Ferguson, et al. propose six species of Spotted Skunk in the United States: Eastern and Western clades of three species each. A seventh species has been described in the Yucatan.
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