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Definition of Little spotted skunk
1. Noun. Small skunk with a marbled black and white coat; of United States and Mexico.
Generic synonyms: Polecat, Skunk, Wood Pussy
Group relationships: Genus Spilogale, Spilogale
Lexicographical Neighbors of Little Spotted Skunk
Literary usage of Little spotted skunk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington, Smithsonian Institution (1908)
"The little spotted skunk is generally reported from the warm desert valleys
entering Colorado from the west. Sunny Peak, Routt County, seems to be the ..."
2. Description of a New Species of Sea Snake from the Philippine Islands: With by John Van Denburgh, Joseph Cheesman Thompson (1908)
"Synonyms—Mephitis bicolor; Mephitis zorilla; Hydrophobia Skunk; Western Spotted
Skunk; little spotted skunk, part. Range—Lower and Upper Sonoran zones and, ..."
3. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"The case of the little spotted skunk, the spilogale, as observed by Doctor Hart
Merriam, is even more interesting. He writes me as follows: VANISHING POWER ..."
4. Denizens of the Desert: A Book of Southwestern Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles by Edmund Carroll Jaeger (1922)
"A little spotted skunk has lived under my house now these three years, and in
all this time she has behaved herself as a perfect little lady, and has, ..."
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