Martes pennanti

Translingual

Martes pennanti

Proper noun

Martes pennanti f

A taxonomic species within the family Mustelidae – fisher cat, now Pekania pennanti.

Usage notes

Recently reevaluated to be a separate genus Pekania, apparently more closely related to Gulo gulo (wolverine) than to other members of Martes.

Hypernyms

(species): Carnivora - order; Caniformia - suborder; Mustelidae - family; Mustelinae or Guloninae - subfamily; Martes - genus; Pekania - subgenus

Hyponyms

(species): Martes pennanti columbiana, Martes pennanti pacifica, Martes pennanti pennanti - subspecies, not universally accepted

References

Martes pennanti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Martes pennanti on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Martes pennanti on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Martes pennanti at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Martes pennanti at Encyclopedia of Life
Martes pennanti at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Martes_pennanti at Animal Diversity Web
Martes pennanti in Mammal Species of the World at Bucknell.
Pekania pennanti at Paleobiology Database

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