The hooded skunk is found from the southwestern United States through Mexico and into Central America, in arid scrub, rocky canyons, and riparian areas. It is closely related to the striped skunk but has a longer, bushier tail and a distinctive ruff of longer fur around its neck that it can raise, and its black-and-white coloration is highly variable between individuals. It forages mainly at night for insects, small vertebrates, and fruit and remains widespread and unthreatened across most of its range.
Facts
Scientific Name Conservation Status Body Size Band Activity Pattern Activity Pattern Activity Pattern Classification
System (Realm) Relationship to PeopleAgricultural or Structural Pest 3 Relationship to People Living or Extinct Comparison
NatureServe Rank CITES Appendix Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Hooded Skunk (Wikidata)
In Biome
Desert, Biomes Source Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web: Mephitis macroura
In the Other Atlases
Found In
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Sources
1. EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014)
2. GBIF Species API
3. Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web: Mephitis macroura
Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of ZoologyReproduction, lifespan
Range lifespan Status: captivity 3 (high) years
Economic Importance for Humans: Negative Impacts
Negative Impacts injures humans bites or stings causes disease in humans causes disease in humans carries human disease crop pest causes or carries domestic animal disease causes or carries domestic animal disease
Conservation Status: CITES
CITES No special status
In Biome: Desert, Habitat Regions, biome: desert or dune
desert or dune desert or dune
View the Source 4. Hooded Skunk (Wikidata)
Wikidata- Wikidata Q1068616 (P225 taxon name)
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
- Child Taxon Of: Mephitidae, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
View the Source 5. NatureServe Explorer: Mephitis macroura
NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)Quote, Global rank (roundedGRank)
"roundedGRank": "G5"
6. Wikipedia: Hooded Skunk
7. Ecological Archives E095-178 (Wilman et al. 2014): EltonTraits 1.0 mammal diet data
Ecological Archives E095-178 (Wilman et al. 2014)Row: mephitis macroura
5054 Mephitis macroura Mephitidae 20 30 0 0 0 0 20 0 10 20 Ref_1 ABC G A 1 1 1 Ref_1 ABC 801.25 Ref_117 1
MamFuncDat.txt row Mephitis macroura, Activity columns
Mephitis macroura Mephitidae 20 30 0 0 0 0 20 0 10 20 Ref_1 ABC G A 1 1 1
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