#0486 · 🦊 mammals
Hooded Skunk
🇳🇱 Gekraagd Stinkdier ·Mephitis macroura
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Juan Carlos Martínez · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © guepardo lento · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Jesús Moreno Navarro · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Leopoldo D. Vázquez-Reyes · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 6. © Aarón Isaac Gómez Orellana · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Jaime Marcelo Aranda Sánchez · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Bodo Nuñez Oberg · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The hooded skunk ( Mephitis macroura ) is a species of mammal in the family Mephitidae. Mephītis in Latin means "foul odor", μακρός ( makrós ) in Greek translates to "long" and οὐρά ( ourá ) translates to "tail".
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.
- 1,933 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Hinrich Lichtenstein in 1832 (194 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Hooded Skunk
- Nederlands
- Gekraagd Stinkdier
- scientific name
- Mephitis macroura
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Carnivora
- family
- Mephitidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 1,933
- GBIF records in NL
- 3
- 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 41879, Wikidata Q1068616, GBIF 5219394, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.