#0514 · 🦊 mammals
American Hog-nosed Skunk
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Varkenssnuitskunk ·Conepatus leuconotus
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Robby Deans · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Yinan Li · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Joel Gilb · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Benjamin Schwartz · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Yinan Li · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Gordon Karre · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © conabio-pj010 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Lorenso Amates · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © APFF Meseta de Cacaxtla · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © APFF Meseta de Cacaxtla · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
7 feet (82 cm). Recent work has concluded the western hog-nosed skunk (formerly Conepatus mesoleucus ) is the same species, and Conepatus leuconotus is the correct name of the merged populations.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 1,737 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Hinrich Lichtenstein in 1832 (194 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- American Hog-nosed Skunk
- Nederlands
- Amerikaanse Varkenssnuitskunk
- scientific name
- Conepatus leuconotus
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Carnivora
- family
- Mephitidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 1,737
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1832 by Hinrich Lichtenstein
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Mephitidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 41877, Wikidata Q934487, GBIF 2434878, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.