Martes melampus Wagner 1840

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 610

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scientific name	Martes melampus Wagner 1840
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Martes melampus Wagner 1840 , in: Schreber, Die Saugethiere, Suppl., Vol. 2: 229.

Type Locality: " Japan." .

Vernacular Names: Japanese Marten.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Martes melampus subsp. melampus Wagner 1840

Subspecies Martes melampus subsp. coreensis Kuroda and Mori 1923

Subspecies Martes melampus subsp. tsuensis Thomas 1897

Distribution: Japan (Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, Tsushima, introduced on Sado and Hokkaido Isls); North and South Korea.

Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable as M. m. tsuensis, otherwise Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: May be conspecific with americana , martes , and zibellina ( Anderson, 1970; Hagmeier, 1961). Heptner et al. (1967) included Japanese and Korean melampus in zibellina . Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951). Stone and Cook (2002) placed it in the subgenus Martes .