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Colombian weasel
Colombian weasel (''Mustela felipei''), also known as the Don Felipe's weasel, is a very rare species of weasel only known with certainty from the departments of Huila and Cauca in Colombia and nearby northern Ecuador (where only known from a single specimen).〔 Both its scientific and alternative common name honours the mammalogist Philip "Don Felipe" Hershkovitz.〔Izor, R. J., and L. de la Torre. 1978. ''A New Species of Weasel (Mustela) from the Highlands of Colombia, with Comments on the Evolution and Distribution of South American Weasels.'' Journal of Mammalogy. Vol. 59(1): 92-102〕
It appears to be largely restricted to riparian habitats at an altitude of 1,100 to 2,700 m. There is extensive deforestation within its limited distribution within the northern Andes of Colombia and Ecuador, and with less than 10 known specimens,〔 it is probably the rarest carnivoran in South America.〔Novak, R. M. 1999. ''Walker's Mammals of the World.'' 6th edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. ISBN 0-8018-5789-9〕 It is therefore considered vulnerable by IUCN.〔
Mature specimens have averaged around , not counting a tail of around , and have weighed . This places as the second smallest living carnivore on average, being only slightly larger than the least weasel (''Mustela nivalis'') and slightly smaller than the ermine or stoat (''M. erminea'').〔''Carnivores of the World'' by Dr. Luke Hunter. Princeton University Press (2011), ISBN 9780691152288〕 The upperparts and tail are blackish-brown, while the underparts are orange-buff.
==Geographic range==
''M. felipei'' is one of the least studied carnivore species in the Americas, and is expected to maintain a larger geographical range that currently known. Reports of sightings have placed ''M. felipei'' in the mountain ranges of western Colombia to northern Ecuador. ''M. felipei'' was originally thought to be endemic to Colombia however recent specimens have been collected in Ecuador that have since proven this thought wrong. Distribution and habitat modeling surveys have been able to predict that ''M. felipei'' is distributed between 20 protected areas in Colombia, and 14 in Ecuador along with 3 previously known locations in both countries, the majority of these locations lie in protected areas of the forest which lie in a range of elevation between 1,100 to 2,700 meters.
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