Martes pennanti

A fisher

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caniformia
Main Page Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Chordata Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Mammalia Subclassis: Theria Infraclassis: Eutheria Magnordo: Epitheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Ordo: Carnivora Subordo: Caniformia

Familia: Mustelidae
Subfamila: Mustelinae
Genus: Martes
Species: Martes pennanti
Subspecies: M. p. columbiana  - M. p. pacifica  - M. p. pennanti

Name

Martes pennanti (Erxleben, 1777)

Type Locality: "in America boreali, vulgaris victitans quadrupedibus minoribus." Listed by Miller and Rehm (1901) as "Eastern Canada."

References

• Erxleben, J. C. P. 1777. Systema regni animalis, per classes, ordines, genera, species, varietates, cum synonymia et historia animalium. Classis I, Mammalia, Weygand, Leipzig, 1:470
• Roger A. Powell, 1981. Martes pennanti, Mammalian Species, American Society of Mammologists, No. 156, pp. 1-6, 4 figs.
• Martes pennanti in Mammal Species of the World.
  Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (eds) (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed).
• IUCN link: Martes pennanti (Erxleben, 1777) (Least Concern)
• Martes pennanti (Erxleben, 1777) Report on ITIS

Links

• Smithsonian Institution - North American Mammals: Martes pennanti

Vernacular names

Català: Marta pescadora
Dansk: Virginsk mår
Deutsch: Fischermarder
English: Fisher, Fisher cat
Nederlands: Vismarter
‪Norsk (bokmål)‬: Fiskermår
Polski: Kuna wodna
Русский: Илька
Türkçe: Balıkçı sansar

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