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Neovison

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Neovison is a former genus of mustelids native to North America that consisted of two species, the extant American mink (Neovison vison) and the sea mink (Neovison macrodon), which was driven to extinction by human fur traders some time between 1860 and 1920. The genus was originally proposed as a subgenus of Mustela in 1997, but uplifted to generic rank in 2000 using an unsupported tree of relationships that proposed Neovison as being the sister genus to Mustela. However, later genetic studies found Neovison to be within Mustela. A 2021 study affirmed Neovison to be nested within a "New World" clade of weasels that also includes the long-tailed, Amazon, and Colombian weasels, all of which were reclassified in the genus Neogale.

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