Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Cladus: Synapsida
Cladus: Eupelycosauria
Cladus: Sphenacodontia
Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea
Cladus: Therapsida
Cladus: Theriodontia
Subordo: Cynodontia
Infraordo: Eucynodontia
Cladus: Probainognathia
Cladus: Prozostrodontia
Cladus: Mammaliaformes
Classis: Mammalia
Subclassis: Trechnotheria
Infraclassis: Zatheria
Supercohors: Theria
Cohors: Eutheria
Infraclassis: Placentalia
Cladus: Boreoeutheria
Superordo: Laurasiatheria
Cladus: Ferae
Ordo: Carnivora
Subordo: Caniformia
Infraordo: Arctoidea
Superfamilia: Musteloidea
Familia: Procyonidae
Subfamilia: Procyoninae
Genus: Bassariscus
Species (2 + 2†): †B. antiquus - B. astutus - †B. minimus - B. sumichrasti
Name
Bassariscus Coues, 1877
References
Bassariscus in Mammal Species of the World.
Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
Vernacular names
Deutsch: Katzenfrette
English: Ringtail & Cacomistle
español: Cacomiztle
français: Bassaricus
Nāhuatl: Cacomiztli
Nederlands: Katfretten
русский: Какомицли
українська: Кільцехвості єноти
Bassariscus is a genus in the family Procyonidae. There are two extant species in the genus: the ring-tailed cat or ringtail (B. astutus) and the cacomistle (B. sumichrasti). Genetic studies have indicated that the closest relatives of Bassariscus are raccoons,[2][3][4] from which they diverged about 10 million years ago in the Tortonian Age of the Miocene.[4] The two lineages of Bassariscus are thought to have separated after only another two million years,[2] making it the extant procyonid genus with the earliest diversification. Later diversification in the genus in the Pliocene and Pleistocene saw the emergence of two extinct species, Bassariscus casei and Bassariscus sonoitensis, respectively. Due to the more digitigrade stance of their legs compared to the plantigrade stance of other members of Procyonidae, some taxonomies place the genus as a separate family, Bassaricidae..[5] The name is a Greek word for fox ("bassaris") with a Latinized diminutive ending ("-iscus").[6] The genus was first described by Elliott Coues in 1887. He proposed the word "bassarisk" as the English term for animals in this genus.[7] Its habitat includes semi-arid areas in the southwestern United States,[8] the whole of Mexico, as well as moist tropical forests in Central America.
Species
Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
Squaw-ringtail-28073.jpg Bassariscus astutus Ring-tailed cat Southern United States from southern Oregon and California throughout the southwestern states to Texas. In Mexico it ranges from the northern desert state of Baja California to Oaxaca. Its distribution overlaps that of B. sumichrasti in the Mexican states of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Veracruz.[9]
† Bassariscus casei[10] Case's ringtail[11] An extinct species with fossils first found in the Upper Pliocene strata of the Rexroad formation in Kansas[12] and later in the Late Blancan strata in California.[11]
† Bassariscus sonoitensis[10] An extinct species with only three known locations in Papago Springs Cave, Santa Cruz County, Arizona (1942), San Josecito Cave, Nuevo León, Mexico (1958), and U-Bar Cave, Hidalgo County, New Mexico (1987), that lived from the late Pleistocene and went extinct before the full-glacial period of the late Wisconsinian. [13]
Bassariscus sumichrasti geo.jpg Bassariscus sumichrasti Cacomistle Central America, from south central Mexico to Panama.
References
Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds. (2005). "Genus Bassariscus". Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
K.-P. Koepfli; M. E. Gompper; E. Eizirik; C.-C. Ho; L. Linden; J. E. Maldonado; R. K. Wayne (2007). "Phylogeny of the Procyonidae (Mammalia: Carvnivora): Molecules, morphology and the Great American Interchange". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 43 (3): 1076–1095. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.495.2618. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.10.003. PMID 17174109.
Eizirik, E.; Murphy, W. J.; Koepfli, K.-P.; Johnson, W. E.; Dragoo, J. W.; Wayne, R. K.; O’Brien, S. J. (2010-02-04). "Pattern and timing of diversification of the mammalian order Carnivora inferred from multiple nuclear gene sequences". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 56 (1): 49–63. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.01.033. PMC 7034395. PMID 20138220.
Helgen, K. M.; Pinto, M.; Kays, R.; Helgen, L.; Tsuchiya, M.; Quinn, A.; Wilson, D.; Maldonado, J. (2013-08-15). "Taxonomic revision of the olingos (Bassaricyon), with description of a new species, the Olinguito". ZooKeys (324): 1–83. doi:10.3897/zookeys.324.5827. PMC 3760134. PMID 24003317.
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"Definition of BASSARISCUS". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
Coues, E. (1887). "Bassariscus, a new generic name in mammalogy". Science. 9 (225): 516. doi:10.1126/science.ns-9.225.516. PMID 17748409.
"Ringtail Cat". Archived from the original on 2010-08-10. Retrieved 2010-12-01.
Reid, F.; Schipper, J.; Timm, R. (2016). "Bassariscus astutus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T41680A45215881. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T41680A45215881.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
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"Procyonidae - Raccoons and Ringtails | University of Texas El Paso".
Hibbard, C. W. (August 1952). "A new Bassariscus from the Upper Pliocene of Kansas|Journal of Mammalogy". 33 (3): 379-381. doi:10.2307/1375775. JSTOR 1375775.
Harris, A. H. (October 1990). "Taxonomic Status of the Pleistocene Ringtail Bassariscus sonoitensis (Carnivora)|The Southwestern Naturalist". 35 (3): 343-346. doi:10.2307/3671953. JSTOR 3671953.
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