Buisnictis


Buisnictis is an extinct genus of skunk from Pliocene North America, ranging all the way from Washington to Baja California. There are currently four accepted species: Buisnictis breviramus, Buisnictis schoffi, Buisnictis burrowsi and Buisnictis metabatos.

Phylogeny

As of Wang, Whistler and Takeuchi, 2005, Buisnictis was recovered as a more derived skunk, while in 2014 Wang, Carranza-Castañeda and Aranda Gómez suggested Buisnictis, specifically B. metabatos, may have been the ancestor of the crown Pleistocene skunks.