| dbo:abstract
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- Mustelidae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, which includes weasels, badgers, otters, ferrets, martens, minks, and wolverines, and many other extant and extinct genera. A member of this family is called a mustelid; Mustelidae is the largest family in Carnivora, and its extant species are divided into eight subfamilies. They are found on all continents except Antarctica and Australia, and are a diverse family; sizes range, including tails, from the widespread 17 cm (7 in) least weasel to the 1.8-meter (6 ft) giant otter of Amazonian South America. Habitats vary widely as well, from the arboreal marten to the fossorial European badger to the marine sea otter. Population sizes are largely unknown, though two species, the sea mink and Japanese otter, were hunted to extinction in 1894 and 1979, respectively, and several other species are endangered. Some species have been domesticated, e.g. the ferret and some populations of the South American tayra. Mustelidae is one of the oldest families in Carnivora; early mustelids first appeared around 28–33 million years ago. The 23 genera and 63 extant species of Mustelidae are split into 8 subfamilies: Guloninae, martens and wolverines; Helictidinae, ferret-badgers; Ictonychinae, African polecats and grisons; Lutrinae, otters; Melinae, Eurasian badgers; Mellivorinae, the honey badger; Mustelinae, weasels and minks; and Taxidiinae, the American badger. In addition to the extant subfamilies, Mustelidae includes three extinct subfamilies designated as Leptarctinae, Mustelavinae, and Oligobuninae. Extinct species have also been placed into all of the extant subfamilies besides Helictidinae, in both extant and extinct genera; around 200 extinct Mustelidae species have been found, as well as fossil genera not given a species name, though due to ongoing research and discoveries the exact number and categorization is not fixed. (en)
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| dbp:habitat
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- Forest (en)
- Domesticated (en)
- Temperate rainforest (en)
- Inland wetlands, coastal marine, neritic marine, and forest (en)
- Inland wetlands, forest, grassland, coastal marine, neretic marine, intertidal marine, and shrubland (en)
- Inland wetlands, neritic marine, forest, coastal marine, and intertidal marine (en)
- Intertidal marine, coastal marine, inland wetlands, forest, shrubland, neritic marine, and grassland (en)
- Desert, rocky areas, grassland, and shrubland (en)
- Forest and grassland (en)
- Forest and savanna (en)
- Forest and shrubland (en)
- Forest, grassland, and shrubland (en)
- Forest, grassland, shrubland, and savanna (en)
- Forest, shrubland, and grassland (en)
- Forest, shrubland, savanna, and desert (en)
- Grassland and shrubland (en)
- Grassland, forest, desert, and shrubland (en)
- Grassland, savanna, desert, and shrubland (en)
- Inland wetlands (en)
- Inland wetlands, forest, grassland, and savanna (en)
- Inland wetlands, forest, grassland, coastal marine, neritic marine, intertidal marine, and shrubland (en)
- Neritic marine and oceanic marine (en)
- Rocky areas, shrubland, forest, and grassland (en)
- Shrubland and desert (en)
- Shrubland and grassland (en)
- Shrubland, forest, savanna, and grassland (en)
- Shrubland, grassland, and forest (en)
- Inland wetlands and forest (en)
- Shrubland and forest (en)
- Grassland, shrubland, and forest (en)
- Forest, inland wetlands, rocky areas, coastal marine, shrubland, and grassland (en)
- Inland wetlands, coastal marine, neritic marine, and intertidal marine (en)
- Coastal marine, intertidal marine, oceanic marine, and neritic marine (en)
- Forest, inland wetlands, neritic marine, coastal marine, intertidal marine, and grassland (en)
- Coastal marine, inland wetlands, neritic marine, and intertidal marine (en)
- Inland wetlands, neritic marine, shrubland, grassland, forest, coastal marine, and intertidal marine (en)
- Forest, inland wetlands, and marine (en)
- Forest, rocky areas, and shrubland (en)
- Grassland, shrubland, forest, and rocky areas (en)
- Inland wetlands, forest, and shrubland (en)
- Inland wetlands, grassland, and shrubland (en)
- Montane and mossy forests, montane grasslands (en)
- Shrubland, rocky areas, and grassland (en)
- Intertidal marine, neritic marine, and coastal marine (en)
- Shrubland, inland wetlands, grassland, rocky areas, and forest (en)
- Forest, bushland, agricultural area, wasteland, and montane grassland (en)
- Inland wetlands, intertidal marine, neritic marine, and coastal marine (en)
- Inland wetlands, coastal marine, grassland, forest, and shrubland (en)
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| dbp:hunting
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- Unknown (en)
- Believed to primarily eat worms (en)
- Omnivorous; eats fruit, nuts, plants, earthworms, insects, eggs, carrion, and small mammals (en)
- Primarily eats insects (en)
- Primarily eats crabs and lobsters, as well as frogs, fish, and insects (en)
- Primarily eats small mammals, rodents, and birds, as well as snakes and insects (en)
- Primarily eats rodents, as well as small birds, lizards, and insects (en)
- Primarily eats lagomorphs, rodents, amphibians, and other vertebrates, as well as invertebrates and carrion (en)
- Primarily eats fish, amphibians, crustaceans, muskrats, and small mammals (en)
- Believed to primarily eat invertebrates (en)
- Fish, crabs, shrimp, eels, beetles, fruit (en)
- Primarily eats earthworms and insects, as well as fruit (en)
- Primarily eats amphibians, crustaceans, fish, small mammals, insects, and birds (en)
- Primarily eats rodents, small mammals, birds, fish, and insects (en)
- Primarily ate fish as well as molluscs (en)
- Primarily eats birds, small mammals, and insects (en)
- Primarily eats carrion and small to large mammals (en)
- Primarily eats fish and crustaceans (en)
- Primarily eats fish, as well as caiman and turtles (en)
- Primarily eats frogs, crabs and small water birds (en)
- Primarily eats fruit, small mammals, and insects (en)
- Primarily eats insects, frogs, and carrion (en)
- Primarily eats invertebrates and insects (en)
- Primarily eats prairie dogs (en)
- Primarily eats rodents and birds (en)
- Primarily eats rodents and other small mammals (en)
- Primarily eats rodents and pikas (en)
- Primarily eats small mammals (en)
- Primarily eats smaller mammals (en)
- Rodents, shrews, and rabbits (en)
- Unknown, but believed to eat rodents and insects (en)
- Primarily eats fish, as well as crustaceans, insects, amphibians, and molluscs (en)
- Small vertebrates, invertebrates, and plant material (en)
- Primarily eats fish, as well as insects, reptiles, amphibians, birds, small mammals, and crustaceans (en)
- Primarily eats fruit, carrion, small vertebrates, insects, and honey (en)
- Primarily eats fish, as well as amphibians and crustaceans (en)
- Primarily eats small mammals, as well as fruit, earthworms, insects, eggs, and birds (en)
- Primarily eats rodents and small mammals, as well as birds, insects, fruit, and carrion (en)
- Unknown, but believed to eat fish, small mammals, and insects (en)
- Primarily eats crustaceans and molluscs, as well as fish, birds, and small mammals (en)
- Primarily eats small mammals, birds, and amphibians, as well as carrion (en)
- Primarily eats marine invertebrates, as well as fish (en)
- Primarily eats rodents and other small mammals as well as eggs, lizards, frogs, salamanders, fish, worms, and carrion (en)
- Primarily eats small mammals, birds, lizards, amphibians, eggs, and fruit (en)
- Primarily eats crabs, molluscs, insects, and small fish, as well as rodents, snakes, and amphibians (en)
- Primarily eats small to medium mammals, birds, and carrion (en)
- Primarily eats rodents, as well as small mammals, birds, amphibians, and eggs (en)
- Primarily eats pikas, rodents, small birds, lizards, and insects (en)
- Primarily eats invertebrates, amphibians, insects, fruit, and carrion (en)
- Primarily eats small mammals, birds, nuts, and berries (en)
- Primarily eats rodents, insects, amphibians, and reptiles (en)
- Primarily eats small lagomorphs and rodents, as well as birds, frogs, lizards, snakes, and eggs (en)
- Primarily eats fossorial rodents, as well as scorpions, insects, snakes, lizards, and birds (en)
- Primarily eats fish, as well as shrimp, crabs, and insects (en)
- Primarily eats fish and water snakes, as well as frogs, lizards, turtles, and crabs (en)
- Primarily eats small mammals, amphibians, fish, carrion, and pine nuts (en)
- Primarily eats insects and snails, as well as small mammals, frogs, lizards, carrion, birds, eggs, and fruit (en)
- Primarily eats rodents, as well as birds and small mammals (en)
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| dbp:range
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- dbr:Amazon_basin
- Argentina (en)
- East Asia (en)
- Europe (en)
- Japan (en)
- Southeast Asia (en)
- Southern Africa (en)
- Sub-Saharan Africa (en)
- Sumatra (en)
- Vietnam (en)
- West Asia (en)
- Southern South America (en)
- Worldwide distribution (en)
- Northern North America (en)
- Africa, Middle East, and India (en)
- Arctic North America, Europe, and Asia (en)
- East and southeast Asia (en)
- Mexico, United States and southern Canada (en)
- North and central South America (en)
- Northern South America and Central America (en)
- Scattered parts of southeast Asia (en)
- Southeast Europe and central Asia (en)
- Central America, Trinidad in the Caribbean, and northern South America (en)
- North America, Central America, and northern South America (en)
- South and Central America, Trinidad in the Caribbean (en)
- Northern, western, and southern edges of the Sahara (en)
- Central Asia and eastern Europe (en)
- Central Asia and northern India (en)
- Central and east Asia (en)
- Central, Southern, and sub-Saharan Africa (en)
- Eastern and southeastern Asia (en)
- Europe and central Asia (en)
- Europe and west Asia (en)
- Europe, North Africa, and large regions of Asia (en)
- Himalayan mountains and east-southeast Asia (en)
- Iraq, South and southeast Asia (en)
- Large parts of Russia (en)
- Much of sub-Saharan Africa (en)
- North-central and east Asia (en)
- Northern Pacific coasts (en)
- Pacific North America (en)
- Parts of Java and Indonesia (en)
- Parts of southeast Asia (en)
- Parts of southern India (en)
- Scattered parts of Indonesia (en)
- Scattered parts of west Asia and west Europe (en)
- Small area of northwest South America (en)
- Small parts of Borneo (en)
- South and East Asia (en)
- Southern Chile and Argentina (en)
- Three small areas in central United States (en)
- United States and Canada, possibly Mexico (en)
- West coast of South America (en)
- formerly Japan (en)
- native to Japan, introduced to Russia (en)
- Canada and United States; introduced to large areas in South America, Europe, and Asia (en)
- Europe, Asia, northern Africa, northern North America (en)
- Europe, north Asia, northern North America, and Greenland ; map includes range of American and haida ermines (en)
- formerly northern New England coast in United States, Maritime Provinces in Canada (en)
- Haida Gwaii in Canada, southern Alexander Archipelago in Alaska (en)
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