Hog-nosed Skunk

{| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- | ||Conepatus chinga||Molina's hog-nosed skunk||Chile, Peru, northern Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and southern Brazil |- | || Conepatus humboldtii||Humboldt's hog-nosed skunk||Patagonian regions of South Argentina |- | ||Conepatus leuconotus||American hog-nosed skunk||Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua |- |||Conepatus semistriatus||Striped hog-nosed skunk||southern Mexico to northern Peru, and in the extreme east of Brazil |- |}

†Conepatus robustus †Conepatus sanmiguelensis †Conepatus suffocans Work in 2003 concluded that the western hog-nosed skunk or common hog-nosed skunk (formerly Conepatus mesoleucus) is the same species as the American hog-nosed skunk, and that Conepatus leuconotus is the correct name of the merged populations.

The eastern hog-nosed skunk is found only in Southern Texas, Veracruz, Mexico, and Arizona Humboldt's hog-nosed skunk, also known as the Patagonian hog-nosed skunk (C. humboldtii) finds its habitat in the open grassy areas in the Patagonian regions of Chile and Argentina The western hog-nosed skunk (C. mesoleucus) is found in, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Sierra Guadalupe, Coahuila, Colima, Honduras, Sonora, and Nicaragua. The striped hog-nosed skunk, C. semistriatus, is found in Veracruz, Costa Rica, and Guatemala.

Although both the spotted skunks and common skunks live mainly on insects, the hog-nosed skunks are even more insectivorous in their feeding habits. The bare snout appears to be used constantly for the purpose of rooting out beetles, beetle larvae (or grubs), and larvae of various insects from the ground.