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Line 22: ==Taxonomy== pablo. The striped skunk was first [[species description\|formally named]] by [[Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber]] as ''Viverra mephitis''. The type locality is in eastern Canada.{{r\|schreb1776\|verts1982}} ===Evolution and subspecies=== The earliest fossil finds attributable to ''Mephitis'' were found in the Broadwater site in [[Nebraska]], dating back to the [[early Pleistocene]] less than 1.8 million years ago. By the [[late Pleistocene]] (70,000–14,500 years ago), the striped skunk was widely distributed throughout the southern United States, and it expanded northwards and westwards by the [[Holocene]] (10,000–4,500 years ago) following the retreat of the [[Wisconsin glaciation\|Wisconsin glacier]].<ref name="barton2012">Barton, H. D., and S. M. Wisely. 2012. Phylogeography of striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) in North America: Pleistocene dispersal and contemporary population structure. ''Journal of Mammalogy'' 93(1):38-51.</ref>

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