Belongs within: Musteloidea.
The genus Conepatus contains the hog-nosed skunks, found in South America and north to the southern United States, generally in rugged terrain. Hog-nosed skunks have black underparts with a broad white stripe on the back and white tail, and a bare elongate snout, as well as large claws for digging (Voigt 1984). They are primarily insectivorous, using the bare snout to root in the ground in search of prey.
<==Conepatus Gray 1837 [incl. Marputius Gray 1837, Oryctogale Merriam 1902, Ozolictis, Thiosmus Lichtenstein 1838]C57 |--+--*C. humboldtii Gray 1837C57, FS15, C57 (see below for synonymy) | `--C. semistriatus (Boddaert 1785)FS15, C57 [=Viverra semistriataC57] | |--C. s. semistriatus (see below for synonymy)C57 | |--C. s. amazonicus (Lichtenstein 1838) (see below for synonymy)C57 | |--C. s. conepatlG69 | |--C. s. quitensis (Humboldt 1812) (see below for synonymy)C57 | |--C. s. taxinus Thomas 1924 [=C. inca taxinus]C57 | `--C. s. zorrino Thomas 1901C57 `--+--C. chinga (Molina 1782)FS15, C57 [=Viverra chingaC57, V. chinghaC57, V. chingheC57] | |--C. c. chinga (see below for synonymy)C57 | |--C. c. budini Thomas 1919 [incl. C. calurus Thomas 1919]C57 | |--C. c. gibsoni Thomas 1910 [=C. suffocans gibsoni; incl. C. suffocans pampanus Thomas 1921]C57 | |--C. c. mendosus Thomas 1921 [=C. suffocans mendosus; incl. C. suffocans enuchus Thomas 1927]C57 | `--C. c. suffocans (Illiger 1815) (see below for synonymy)C57 `--C. leuconotusFS15 Conepatus incertae sedis: C. castaneus (D’Orbigny & Gervais 1847)C57 [=Mephitis castaneusC57, C. humboldti castaneusBP87] |--C. c. castaneus (D’Orbigny & Gervais 1847) [incl. C. proteo gaucho Thomas 1927]C57 `--C. c. proteus Thomas 1902 [=C. castaneus proteo]C57 C. mesoleucusMB86 |--C. m. mesoleucusMB86 |--C. m. filipensisG69 |--C. m. mearnsi Merriam 1902MB86 `--C. m. sonoriensis Merriam 1902MB86 C. rex Thomas 1898C57 |--C. r. rex (see below for synonymy)C57 `--C. r. inca Thomas 1900C57 C. zorilla Thomas 1900T00
Conepatus chinga chinga (Molina 1782) [incl. Viverra chilensis Geoffroy 1803, C. chilensis, Mephitis (Thiosmus) chilensis, M. chiliensis, M. nasutus var. chilensis, M. dimidiata Fischer 1814, M. furcata Wagner 1841]C57
Conepatus chinga suffocans (Illiger 1815) [=Gulo suffocans, Mephitis (Thiosmus) suffocans; incl. M. feuillei Gervais 1841, Conepatus suffocans feuillei, C. mapurito monzoni Aplin 1894]C57
*Conepatus humboldtii Gray 1837C57, FS15, C57 [=C. nasutus var. humboldtiiC57; incl. Mephitis (Thiosmus) patagonica Lichtenstein 1838C57, M. patachonicaC57]
Conepatus rex rex Thomas 1898 [incl. C. ajax Thomas 1913, C. arequipae Thomas 1898, C. chorensis Thomas 1902, C. hunti Thomas 1903, C. porcinus Thomas 1902]C57
Conepatus semistriatus amazonicus (Lichtenstein 1838) [=Mephitis (Thiosmus) amazonica; incl. C. chilensis bahiensis Ihering 1911, C. nasutus var. chilensis Gray 1865 non Viverra chilensis Geoffroy 1803, Thiosmus chilensis non (Geoffroy 1803), Mephitis westermanni Reinhardt 1856]C57
Conepatus semistriatus quitensis (Humboldt 1812) [=Gulo quitensis, C. (Marputius) quitensis, Mephitis (Thiosmus) quitensis]C57
Conepatus semistriatus semistriatus (Boddaert 1785) [incl. Mephitis gumillae Lichtenstein 1838, C. gumillae, M. gumillaei, Viverra mapurito Gmelin 1788 non Müller 1776, Conepatus mapurito, Gulo mapurito, Mephitis mapurito, M. zorilla Fischer 1829]C57
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[BP87] Burton, J. A., & B. Pearson. 1987. Collins Guide to the Rare Mammals of the World. Collins: London.
[C57] Cabrera, A. 1957. Catalogo de los mamiferos de America del Sur. I (Metatheria—Unguiculata—Carnivora). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia” e Instituto Nacional de Investigacion de Las Ciencias Naturales, Ciencias Zoológicas 4 (1): 1–307.
[FS15] Faurby, S., & J.-C. Svenning. 2015. A species-level phylogeny of all extant and late Quaternary extinct mammals using a novel heuristic-hierarchical Bayesian approach. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 14–26.
[G69] Goodwin, G. G. 1969. Mammals from the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, in the American Museum of Natural History. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 141 (1): 1–269, 40 pls.
[MB86] Matson, J. O. & R. H. Baker. 1986. Mammals of Zacatecas. Special Publications, Museum of Texas Tech University 24: 1–88.
[T00] Thomas, O. 1900. Descriptions of new Neotropical mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 7, 5: 217–222.