Order Carnivora Author W. Christopher Wozencraft text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 279 348 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7359191 1-56098-217-9 7359191 Mustela altaica Pallas, 1811 . Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., 1:98 . TYPE LOCALITY: "qui alpes altaicas adibunt" [ Altai Mtns] . DISTRIBUTION: E Kazakhstan , S and SE Siberia, Primorski Krai ( Russia ); Mongolia ; Tibet , W and N China ; Korea . STATUS: CITES - Appendix III ( India ). SYNONYMS: alpina Gebier, 1823; astutus Milne-Edwards, 1870 ; birulai Ognev, 1928 ; longstaffi Wroughton, 1911 ; raddei Ognev, 1928 ; sacana Thomas, 1914 ; temon Hodgson, 1857 . COMMENTS: Youngman (1982) placed altaica in the subgenus Mustela ; however, Ognev (1935) considered sibirica and altaica closely related.