#0296 · 🦊 mammals

Long-tailed Weasel

🇳🇱 Langstaartwezel ·Neogale frenata

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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1. © Suzanne Labbé · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Weston Barker · CC BY-NC 4.0
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4. © John Krampl · CC BY 4.0
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8. © Bernie Paquette · CC BY 4.0
9. © Elinor Osborn · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The long-tailed weasel ( Neogale frenata ), also known as the bridled weasel or big stoat , is a species of mustelid distributed from southern Canada throughout all the United States and Mexico, southward through all of Central America and into northern South America. It is distinct from the short-tailed weasel ( Mustela erminea ), also known as a "stoat", a close relation in the genus Mustela that originated in Eurasia and crossed into North America some half million years ago.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,310iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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.
7,310 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Hinrich Lichtenstein in 1831 (195 years ago).