Striped skunk

(Mephitis mephitis)

Range: North America; from Canada into northern Mexico

Subspecies

• M. m. mephitis: Eastern Canada (Nova Scotia, Quebec, and northern Ontario)

• M. m. avia: Prairies of Illinois, as well as western Indiana and eastern Iowa

• M. m. elongata: West Virginia to Florida, west to the Gulf coast and into the Mississippi River

• M. m. estor: Arizona, western New Mexico, and northwestern Mexico

• M. m. holzneri: Southern California into parts of Baja California, as well as the Sierra Nevada and the San Bernardino range

• M. m. hudsonica: Manitoba to British Columbia, and south from Minnesota to Colorado

• M. m. major: Eastern Oregon, northern California, and Nevada, as well as east to the Wasatch Range in Idaho and Utah

• M. m. mesomelas: West side of the Mississippi Valley, westward along the coast of Texas to the Matagorda Island, and up the Red River Valley as far at least as Wichita Falls

• M. m. nigra: New England, south to Virginia and west to Indiana

• M. m. notata: Southern Washington and northern Oregon, east of the Cascade Range

• M. m. occidentalis: Northern and central California, to the Willamette Valley in Oregon.

• M. m. spissigrada: Around the Puget Sound as well as coastal region of Washington and northern Oregon

• M. m. varians: Southern and western Texas, eastern New Mexico, and adjacent parts of northeastern Mexico, as well as north into Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska