Mustela erminea Linnaeus 1758 Mustela erminea Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 46. Type Locality: "Europa and Asia frigidiore; hyeme praefertim in alpinis regionibus nivea". Vernacular Names: Ermine. Subspecies:: Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. erminea Linnaeus 1758 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. aestiva Kerr 1792 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. alascensis Merriam 1896 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. anguinae Hall 1932 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. arctica Merriam 1896 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. augustidens Brown 1908 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. bangsi Hall 1945 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. celenda Hall 1944 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. cigognanii Bonaparte 1838 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. fallenda Hall 1945 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. ferghanae Thomas 1895 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. gulosa Hall 1945 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. haidarum Preble 1898 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. hibernica Thomas and Barrett-Hamilton 1895 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. initis Hall 1945 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. invicta Hall 1945 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. kadiacensis Merriam 1896 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. kaneii Baird 1857 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. karaginensis Jurgenson 1936 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. lymani Hollister 1912 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. martinoi Ellerman and Morrison-Scott 1951 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. minima Cavazza 1912 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. mongolica Ognev 1928 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. muricus Bangs 1899 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. nippon Cabrera 1913 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. ognevi Jurgenson 1932 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. olympica Hall 1945 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. polaris Barrett-Hamilton 1904 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. richardsonii Bonaparte 1838 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. ricinae Miller 1907 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. salva Hall 1944 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. seclusa Hall 1944 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. semplei Sutton and Hamilton 1932 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. stabilis Barrett-Hamilton 1904 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. streatori Merriam 1896 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. teberdina Korneev 1941 Subspecies Mustela erminea subsp. tobolica Ognev 1923 Distribution: Circumboreal, tundra and forested regions of Palearctic. Afghanistan, Algeria, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan (C Honshu), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand (introduced), Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, USA (C California, N New Mexico, N Iowa and Maryland). Conservation: CITES – Appendix III (India) as M. erminea ferghanae; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Revised by Eger (1990). Reviewed by C. M. King (1983). Youngman (1982) and Abramov (1999) placed erminea in the subgenus Mustela. Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), Hall (1951, 1981), and C. M. King (1983).

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, pp. 532-628 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 613, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519