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Fitch
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see polecat.
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Polecat - carnivorous mammal of the weasel family. The name refers especially to the common Old World polecat, Mustela putorius, found in wooded areas of N Eurasia and N Africa.
Fitch, H.S.
1999. A Kansas snake community: composition and changes over 50 years. Krieger Publishing Co., Malabar, Florida, USA. 165 pp.
Gibbons, J.W. and R.D. Semlitsch.
Fitch, H. S. 1960. Autecology of the copperhead. University of Kansas Publications of the Museum of Natural History 13:85-288.
Account Author: Kimberly Andrews and J.D. Willson
Juvenile copperhead - note yellow tail tip ...
Fitch.-Size 12 X3 in., of the marten species, also known as the pole cat. Yellow underwool a in. deep, black top hair, 11 to 14 in. long, very fine and open in growth, and not close as in martens. Largest skins come from Denmark, Holland and Germany.
Thamnophis sirtalis fitchi
Valley Gartersnake
New River Area of Critical Environmental Concern, Coos County, Oregon
7/25/2001 ...
Fitch 1967. Seasonal movements and population fluctuations of the cave bat (Myotis velifer) in south central Kansas. Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 70:210-218. Dyche, L. L. 1890. Notes on three species of gophers found at Lawrence, Kansas. Trans.
Raymond; Fitch, Henry S.; Eaton, Theodore H., Jr., eds. University of Kansas publications. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. 14(11): 141-143. [70335] 4. Andersen, Douglas C. 1994.
Fitch, D. H., Bailey, W., Czelusniak, J., Koop, B. F., Benson, P. & Slightom, J. L. (1990). "Primate evolution at the DNA level and a classification of hominoids". Journal of Molecular Evolution 30 (3): 260-266. doi:10.1007/BF02099995.
Octopus fitchi (Berry, 1953) Fitch's pygmy octopus
Octopus globosus (Appellöf, 1886) Globe octopus
Octopus graptus (Norman, 1993) Scribbled night octopus
Octopus hubbsorum (Berry, 1953) Hubb's octopus ...
Eggsare laid in April-May in Florida, Mexico, Venezuela, and Honduras; December-February in Ecuador and Panama (Kushlan and Mazzotti 1989); mid-February to early April in Dominican Republic (Fitch 1985); ...
The European Polecat (Mustela putorius), also known as a fitch, foumart, or foulmart, is a member of the Mustelidae family, and is related to the stoats, otters, and minks.
multicarinata (Fitch, 1938, Am. Midl. Nat. 20: 381-424). Haplotypes from the central Coast Ranges of California (formerly multicarinata) are more closely related to those from southern (webbii) rather than northern (multicarinata) California, ...
The polecat was also trapped for its fur, known as 'fitch', which was widely used in the early nineteenth century. Records show that a total of 400 polecat pelts was sold at the old Fur Fair in Dumfries, Scotland, in 1829, and 600 in 1831.
The European Polecat (Mustela putorius), also known as a fitch, is a member of the Mustelidae family, and is related to the stoats, otters, weasels, and minks.
fitchi FOX, 1951 Valley Garter Snake
T. s. infernalis (BLAINVILLE, 1835) California Red-sided Garter Snake
T. s. lowei TANNER 1988
T. s. pallidulus ALLEN, 1899 Maritime Garter Snake
T. s. parietalis (SAY, 1823) Red-sided Garter Snake
T. s.
Priacanthus fitchi Starnes, 1988.
Moontail bullseye, Priacanthus hamrur Forsskål, 1775.
Red bigeye, Priacanthus macracanthus Cuvier, 1829.
Hawaiian bigeye, Priacanthus meeki Jenkins, 1903.
Priacanthus nasca Starnes, 1988.
The Giant Garter Snake was first reported by Fitch, 1940. It is a scaled reptile, and it sheds its skin.
In general, species from the squamata order are incredibly diverse. Small lizards from 1.2 cm long, to snakes reaching 10 metres in length!.
Fitch says it is very doubtful whether I ever get any return from him. I am in hopes Dr. Holbrook will send me his "Herpetology" if he don't forget it. And perhaps the receipt of the specimens would remind him of his promise.
The habitat in which it is found also supports a number of other cacti species, such as Lindheimer prickly-pear, twisted-rib cactus, horsecrippler, tasajillo, nipple cactus, Runyon's coryphantha, glory of Texas, and Fitch's hedgehog cactus.
Seigel, L. E. Hunt, J. L. Knight, L. Malaret, and N .L. Zuschlag, editors. Vertebrate ecology and systematics: a tribute to Henry S. Fitch. Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
In the Midwest, prefers old fields and grassland prairies, but also inhabits open woodlands and patches of savanna or rocky terrain in the midst of forested country (Anderson 1965, Fitch 1979).
 See also: Snake, Reptile, Lizard, Polecat, Genet
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