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Species
Least ConcernHooded Skunk
species
Observations1,817
Observations: Little is known about the longevity of these animals, but one specimen lived 8.8 years in captivity (Richard Weigl 2005).
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Wikidata facts
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Mephitis macroura
- Commons category
- Mephitis macroura
- taxon common name
- Langschwanzskunk
- short name
- M. macroura
- taxon author citation
- Lichtenstein, 1832
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Encyclopedic overview
The hooded skunk (Mephitis macroura) is a species of mammal in the family Mephitidae. Mephītis in Latin means "foul odor", μακρός (makrós) in Greek translates to "long" and οὐρά (ourá) translates to "tail".
Morphology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hooded skunk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.