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--> FAMILY Mustelidae
--> SUBFAMILY Mustelinae
--> GENUS Martes
SPECIES Martes zibellina
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 46. | | Common Name: | Sable | | Type Locality: | "asia septentrionali," restricted by Thomas (1911a) to "N. Asia." Restricted by Ognev (1931:562) to "Tobol'skaya gub. v ee severnoi chasti" ["northern part of Tobol'sk Province" (1962 translation)] [Russia]. | | Distribution: | China (Xinjiang to NE), Japan (Hokkaido); Mongolia, North Korea, Russia (Ural Mtns to Siberia, Kamchatka, Sakhalin). | | Status: | IUCN – Data Deficient as M. z. brachyura, otherwise Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Reviewed by Pavlinin (1966). May be conspecific with americana, martes, and melampus (Anderson, 1970; Hagmeier, 1961). Heptner et al. (1967) included Japanese and Korean melampus in zibellina. Synonyms allocated according to Heptner et al. (1967). Stone and Cook (2002) placed it in the subgenus Martes. |
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