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Depending on what you define as a "weasel", there are either 12 or 17 varieties. That is, of the 17 members of the genus Mustela, there are 5 who do not have the word "weasel" in their given name. They are the Stoat, which has weasel in it's common name in some parts of the world, and the Steppe Polecat, the European Mink, the Black-footed Ferret, the European Polecat. The 17 species of weasel (and their common name) are:
1. Mustela africana - Tropical Weasel
2. Mustela altaica - Mountain Weasel
3. Mustela erminea - Stoat (also known as an ermine or a short tailed weasel)
4. Mustela eversmannii - Steppe Polecat
5. Mustela felipei - Columbian Weasel
6. Mustela frenata - Long-tailed Weasel
7. Mustela itatsi - Japanese Weasel
8. Mustela kathiah - Yellow-bellied Weasel
9. Mustela lutreola - European Mink
10. Mustela lutreolina - Indonesian Mountain Weasel
11. Mustela nigripes - Black-footed Ferret
12. Mustela nivalis - Least Weasel
13. Mustela nudipes - Malaysian Weasel
14. Mustela putorius - European Polecat (it is thought that the European Polecat was dometsticated and became the domestic ferret we know today)
15. Mustela sibirica - Siberian Weasel
16. Mustela strigidorsa - Back-striped Weasel
17. Mustela subpalmata -Egyptian Weasel
There used to be 18, but the American Mink has since been renamed Neovison vison. I believe it is the only surviving member of the genus Neovison, as the others were hunted to extinction for their fur.
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