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Martes americana

Description

Martes americana (Turton, 1806). A Gen. Syst. of Nat., 1:60.

TYPE LOCALITY: E. North America.

DISTRIBUTION: Alaska and Canada south to N. California, south in the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mtns, to 35° N.

COMMENT: May be conspecific with martes, melampus, and zibellina; see Anderson, 1970, Acta Zool. Fenn., 130: 132; Hagmeier, 1961, Can. Field Nat., 75: 122- 138; and Corbet, 1978: 172; but see also Hall, 1981:981; Gromov and Baranova, 1981:256- 258.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412004006001001.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 259, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980

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Biodiversity

Family
Mustelidae
Genus
Martes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Carnivora
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Turton
Species
americana
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Martes americana (Turton, 1806) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Anderson, E. 1970. Quaternary evolution of the genus Martes (Carnivora, Mustelidae). Acta Zoologica Fennica, 130: 1 - 132.
  • Hagmeier, E. M. 1961. Variation and relationships in North American marten. Canadian Field Naturalist, 75: 122 - 138.
  • Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.
  • Gromov, I. M., and G. I. Baranova (eds.). 1981. Katalog mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Catalog of mammals of the USSR]. Nauka, Leningrad, 456 pp. (in Russian).