Badger is the common name for a specific group of carnivorous mammals, which belong to the family Mustelidae, which also includes weasels, otters, ferrets, wolverines, and relatives. There are eight species of badger, in three subfamilies: Melinae (badgers of Europe and Asia), Mellivorinae (the Ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (the American badger).

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Carnivora

Family: Mustelidae

Subfamily: Melinae

Mellivorinae

Taxidiinae

Genera Arctonyx

Melogale

Meles

Mellivora

Taxidea

There is no such species as a 'North American Ferret'. Like domestic dogs, all ferrets are domesticated Polecats (Mustela putorius) and belong to the subspecies Mustela putorius furo.

The black footed ferret is native to North America. Scientific name for black footed ferret - Mustela Nigripes

Ferrets are classified in the following manner:

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Chordata (Vertebrates)

Class Mammalia (Mammals)

Order Carnivora (Carnivores)

Suborder caniformia (Dog-like)*

Superfamily Musteloidea (Musteloids)**

Family Mustelidae (Mustelids)***

Genus Mustela (Weasels)****

Species M. putorius (European polecats)

Subspecies M. p. furo (Domestic ferret)

*The caniforma group distinguishes animals with more dog-like characteristics from those with more catlike characteristics, and generally exhibit longer snouts and non-retractile claws.

**The musteloid superfamily is a of the same level as the archaic category Arctoidea, a line which is now broken into Ursoidea (bears) and Pinnipedia (seals, sea lions, and walruses) in addition to Musteloidea includes mustelids, raccoons, skunks, and possibly red pandas.

***The mustelid family includes otters, badgers, and weasels, and until recently, was thought to include skunks until they were recategorized within the superfamily.

****The weasel genus includes weasels and similar creatures such as polecats, certain minks, stoats, ermines, and ferrets.

Scientific classification for the domestic ferret: they are members of the family Mustelidae in the order Carnivora. The domestic ferret is classified as Mustela putorius furo. The black-footed ferret is classified as Mustela nigripes.

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Carnivora - includes cats, dogs, bears, raccoons, weasels, civets, and hyenas

Family: Mustelidae (5 subfamilies) - weasels, badgers, otters - are to be found all over the world, in every continent except Australia and Antarctica. Their habitat ranges from arctic tundra to tropical rain-forest on land, in trees, in rivers and in the ocean.

Sub-Family: Mustelinae - includes martens, mink, and weasels

Genus: Mustela - ferrets

Species: M. putorius - European polecat ferret

Subspecies: M. p. furo - Domestic ferret

Trinomial Name: Mustela putorius furo == == Scientific name for black-footed ferrets is Mustela nigripes Ferets are from the family Mustelidae, commonly known as the Weasel Family.
Mustela putorius furo - it means, rather fittingly, weasel-like stinky thief.
Mustela putorius furo, meaning weasel-like stinky thief in latin.

A ferret is a weasel like mammal (Mustela putorius furo) related to the European polecat ferret and often trained to hunt rats or rabbits. Ferrets are related to weasels in the family Mustelidae of the orderCarnivora.

The weasel family includes - Ferret, stoat, polecat, mink, ermine, black-footed ferret, long tailed weasel, least weasel. Other relatives of the weasels are martens, otters, badgers, and wolverines. The terms stoat and ermine are terms for the long tailed and short tailed weasels in their winter coats.. Ferrets are not related to skunks or rodents

Polecats, weasels, stoats, pine martens, badgers, skunks, wolverines, otters, grisons and tayras - the Mustelidae.

Yes, they are all in the Mustelidae family and very similar in body shape and size

Under the Threatened and Endangered Species, the Black-Footed Ferret Mustela nigripes as listed 35 Federal Register 8495 on June 2, 1970.

The black-footed ferret was first officially recognized by the United States government as threatened in 1967. In 1973 when the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was created in 1973, black footed ferrets where listed as endangered. It was not until 1978 that the United States Fish and Wildlife Service adopted a recovery plan for habitat protection in 1978, and the ferret had declined to near extinction. The recovery plan has since been modified with emphasis on captive breeding and reintroduction

'Weasel' can refer to the weasel family, the true weasel genus (including ermine), and also the species known as the Least Weasel.

Martens are members of Mustelidae, the weasel family, but occupy their own genus, Martes.