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  <dc:contributor>Robert Charles Lonsinger</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>W. Sue Fairbanks</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Bailey A. Kleeberg</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2024</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;The white-backed hog-nosed skunk (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Conepatus leuconotus&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;) is an understudied mesocarnivore thought to be declining throughout its range in the southwestern United States. With the exception of a single skull of unknown age, hog-nosed skunks have not been documented in Oklahoma since 1930. We conducted a camera trapping survey in Cimarron County, Oklahoma during summer 2022 and confirmed the presence of a hog-nosed skunk in Oklahoma. This finding provides the first evidence of a hog-nosed skunk in Oklahoma in over 90 years and is within the range of a poorly documented subspecies (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;C. l. figginsi&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;) believed to be in decline.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1894/0038-4909-69.1.9</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Southwestern Association of Naturalists</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>White-backed hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus Leuconotus) occurrence in the Oklahoma panhandle</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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