Order Carnivora Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 244 289 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7352980 1ce75501-9bd6-4f4f-b9de-34a393211f7b 0-89327-235-3 7352980 Mustela eversmanni Lesson, 1827 . Manuel Mamm., p. 144 . TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R ., Orenburgsk. ObL, S. of Orenburg, mouth of Khobda River, a tributary of Ilek River . DISTRIBUTION: Steppes and subdeserts of E. Europe, U.S. S. R.; Mongolia ; W., C. and N. E. China . COMMENT: Possible ancestor of the domestic ferret, furo; see Corbet, 1978:171; Corbet and Hill, 1980:96 . See Stroganov, 1962 , [Mamm. Siberia], 2, [Carnivores], p. 335, for discussion of type locality.