Martes zibellina (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:46.

TYPE LOCALITY: "asia septentrionali," restricted by Thomas (1911a) to "N. Asia." Restricted by Ognev (1935) to "Tobol'skuyu gub. v ee severnoi chasti" ["northern part of Tobol'sk Province" (1962c translation)] [Russia] .

DISTRIBUTION: Ural Mtns to Siberia, Kamchatka, Sakhalin (Russia); Mongolia; Sinkiang and NE China; N Korea; Hokkaido (Japan); originally west to N Scandanavia and W Poland.

SYNONYMS: brachyura Temminck, 1844 .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Pavlinin (1966). May be conspecific with americana, martes, and melampus (Anderson, 1970; Hagmeier, 1961). Heptner and Naumov (1967) included Japanese and Korean melampus in zibellina .