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European polecat

Mustela putorius

Order: Carnivora

Family: Mustelidae

Datasheet

Sex: female

Age: adult

Skull length: 6.42 cm

Skull width: 3.55 cm

Skull height: 2.6 cm

Skull weight: 10.9 g

Owner: Hungarian Natural History Museum

Inventory number: 3521.

Collecting date: 08 January 1927

Collecting area: Nagykovácsi, Hungary

Uploaded: 16 August 2018

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European polecat (Mustela putorius) skull

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