Subspecies
Bassariscus astutus raptor (Northern california ringtail)
Bassariscus astutus raptor. Photo: (c) Jamie Bettaso, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
The ringtail (Bassariscus astutus) is a mammal of the raccoon family, native to arid regions of North America. It is also known as the ringtail cat, ring-tailed cat, miner’s cat or bassarisk, and is also sometimes called a “civet cat” (after similar, though only distantly related, cat-like carnivores of Asia and Africa). The ringtail is sometimes called a cacomistle, though this term seems to be more often used to refer to Bassariscus sumichrasti.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Class: Mammalia (Mammals)
- Subclass: Theria (Therians)
- Infraclass: Placentalia (Placental mammals)
- Superorder: Laurasiatheria (Ungulates, carnivorans, and allies)
- Order: Carnivora (Carnivorans)
- Family: Procyonidae (Raccoons, coatis, and allies)
- Genus: Bassariscus (Ringtails)
- Species: Bassariscus astutus (Ringtail)
- Subspecies: Bassariscus astutus raptor (Northern california ringtail)
- Species: Bassariscus astutus (Ringtail)
- Genus: Bassariscus (Ringtails)
- Family: Procyonidae (Raccoons, coatis, and allies)
- Order: Carnivora (Carnivorans)
- Superorder: Laurasiatheria (Ungulates, carnivorans, and allies)
- Infraclass: Placentalia (Placental mammals)
- Subclass: Theria (Therians)
- Class: Mammalia (Mammals)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
