Martes melampus (Wagner, 1841)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 320

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scientific name	Martes melampus (Wagner, 1841)
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Martes melampus (Wagner, 1841) View in CoL . In Schreber, Die Säugethiere., Suppl., 2:229.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Japan " .

DISTRIBUTION: Japan (Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, Tsushima, introduced on Sado Isl); Korea.

STATUS: IUCN - Indeterminate as M. m. tsuensis.

SYNONYMS: japonica Gray, 1865 ; melanopus Gray, 1865 .

COMMENTS: May be conspecific with americana , martes and zibellina ( Anderson, 1970; Hagmeier, 1961). Heptner and Naumov (1967) included Japanese and Korean melampus in zibellina .