Martes melampus Wagner 1840

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 .