Guloninae Explained

Guloninae is a subfamily of the mammal family Mustelidae distributed across Eurasia and the Americas. It includes martens and the fisher, tayra and wolverine.^{[1] [2]} These genera were formerly included within a paraphyletic definition of the mustelid subfamily Mustelinae.^[3]

Most gulonine species are arboreal to a degree. Some of the fashion furs come from this subfamily, e.g. sable, marten.^[4]

Species

Extant species

Tribe	Image	Genus	Living species
Gulonini		Eira	Tayra, E. barbara
		Gulo	Wolverine, G. gulo
Martini		Martes (martens)	American marten, M. americana Pacific marten, M. caurina Yellow-throated marten, M. flavigula Beech marten, M. foina Nilgiri marten, M. gwatkinsii Pine marten, M. martes Japanese marten, M. melampus Sable, M. zibellina
		Pekania	Fisher, P. pennanti

Extinct genera

• †Aragonictis Valenciano et al., 2022^[5] - Middle Miocene Europe
  • A. araid
• †Circamustela Petter, 1967^[5] - Middle to Late Miocene Europe
  • C. dechaseauxi
  • C. peignei
  • C.? laevidens
• †Dehmictis Ginsburg and Morales, 1992^[5] - Early Miocene Europe
• †Eiricitis - Early Pliocene Asia
  • E. pachygnatha
• †Laphictis Viret, 1933^[5]
• †Ischyrictis Helbing, 1930^[5]
• †Plesiogulo? Zdansky, 1924^{[6] [7]} - Middle Miocene to Pliocene
  • P. brachygnathus (Schlosser, 1903)
  • P. botori Haile-Selassie, Hlusko & Howell, 2004
  • P. crassa Teilhard de Chardin, 1945
  • P. marshalli (Martin, 1928)
  • P. lindsayi Harrison, 1981
  • P. monspessulanus Viret, 1939
  • P. praecocidens Kurtén, 1970
• †Sinictis Zdansky, 1924^[5]
  • S. dolichognathus
• †Sminthosinis Bjork, 1970^[7] - Middle Miocene North America
  • S. bowleri

Notes and References

1. Nascimento. F. O. do. On the correct name for some subfamilies of Mustelidae (Mammalia, Carnivora). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 54. 21. 2014. 307–313. 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.21. free.
2. Law. C. J.. Slater. G. J.. Mehta. R. S.. 2018-01-01. Lineage Diversity and Size Disparity in Musteloidea: Testing Patterns of Adaptive Radiation Using Molecular and Fossil-Based Methods. Systematic Biology. 67. 1. 127–144. 10.1093/sysbio/syx047. 28472434. free.
3. Koepfli KP . Multigene phylogeny of the Mustelidae: Resolving relationships, tempo and biogeographic history of a mammalian adaptive radiation . BMC Biol. . 6 . 4–5 . 2008 . 18275614 . 10.1186/1741-7007-6-10 . 2276185 . vanc. Deere KA . Slater GJ . 3 . Begg . Colleen . Begg . Keith . Grassman . Lon . Lucherini . Mauro . Veron . Geraldine . Wayne . Robert K . free .
4. Web site: History of Fur in Fashion: Introduction. 4 December 2011.
5. Valenciano . A.. Morales . J. . etal . January 2022 . Aragonictis araid, gen. et sp. nov., a small-sized hypercarnivore (Carnivora, Mustelidae) from the upper middle Miocene of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain) . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 41. 5. e2005615 . 10.1080/02724634.2021.2005615.
6. Valenciano. Alberto. Govender. Romala. 2020-06-01. New insights into the giant mustelids (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Langebaanweg fossil site (West Coast Fossil Park, South Africa, early Pliocene). PeerJ. en. 8. e9221. 10.7717/peerj.9221. 32547866. 7271888. 2167-8359. free.
7. Samuels. Joshua X.. Bredehoeft. Keila E.. Wallace. Steven C.. 2018-04-18. A new species of Gulo from the Early Pliocene Gray Fossil Site (Eastern United States); rethinking the evolution of wolverines. PeerJ. 6. e4648. 10.7717/peerj.4648. 2167-8359. 5910791. 29682423 . free .