🦡Sea Mink
The sea mink is a recently extinct species of mink that lived on the eastern coast of North America around the Gulf of Maine on the New England seaboard. It was most closely related to the American mink, with continuing debate about whether or not the sea mink should be considered a subspecies of the American mink or a species of its own. The main justification for a separate species designation is the size difference between the two minks, but other distinctions have been made, such as its redder fur. The only known remains are bone fragments unearthed in Native American shell middens. Its actual size is speculative, based largely on tooth remains.
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IUCN Red List assessment.
- Body mass
- 1.19 kg
- Body length
- 0.66 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 15 years
This animal is extinct
Assessed Extinct on the IUCN Red List. Everything on this page — the measurements, the photos, the videos — is a record of an animal that is gone.
Everything we know about the Sea Mink
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass1.19 kgCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length0.66 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan15 yearsestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length6.03 yearsestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation52 daysestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 3estimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Danger to humansharmlessSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l1.2 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Sea Mink yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCarnivora
- ›familyMustelidae
- ›genusMustela
- ›speciesMustela macrodon
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- familyMustelidae
- genusNeovison
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderCaniformia
- familyMustelidae
- genusNeovison
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