Mustela

== Translingual == === Etymology === From Latin mūstēla (“weasel”), probably from mūs (“mouse”). === Proper noun === Mustela f A taxonomic genus within the family Mustelidae – weasels and close relatives. ==== Hypernyms ==== (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – supercohort; Eutheria – infraclass; Carnivora – order; Caniformia – suborder; Mustelidae – family; Mustelinae – subfamily ==== Hyponyms ==== (genus): Mustela erminea (stoat, Beringian ermine, Eurasian ermine, short-tailed weasel) – type species; , Mustela aistoodonnivalis (missing-toothed pygmy weasel), Mustela altaica (mountain weasel), Mustela eversmannii (steppe polecat), Mustela furo (domestic ferret), Mustela haidarum (Haida ermine), Mustela itatsi (Japanese weasel), Mustela kathiah (yellow-bellied weasel), Mustela lutreola (European mink), Mustela lutreolina (Indonesian mountain weasel), Mustela macrodon, Mustela nigripes (black-footed ferret), Mustela nivalis (least weasel), Mustela nudipes (Malayan weasel), Mustela putorius (European polecat), Mustela rickardsonii (American ermine), Mustela sibirica (Siberian weasel), Mustela strigidorsa (back-striped weasel) – other currently accepted species Mustela africana ( ⇒ Neogale africana, Amazon weasel), Mustela felipei ( ⇒ Neogale felipei, Colombian weasel), Mustela frenata ( ⇒ Neogale frenata, long-tailed weasel), Mustela vison ( ⇒ Neovison vison ⇒ Neogale vison, American mink) – species now in genus Neogale === References === Mustela on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Mustela on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Mustela on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons == Latin == === Etymology === From mūstēla (“weasel”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [muːsˈteː.ɫa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [musˈtɛː.la] === Proper noun === Mūstēla m sg (genitive Mūstēlae); first declension a Roman cognomen famously held by: Tamisius Mustela, a Roman retainer ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun, singular only. === References === “Mustela”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray