The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Martes zibellina

 – Lower Risk Least Concern

Taxonomy

Kingdom: ANIMALIA
Phylum: CHORDATA
Class: MAMMALIA
Order: CARNIVORA
Family: MUSTELIDAE
Scientific Name: Martes zibellina
Species Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)
Infra-specific Taxa Assessed:

See Martes zibellina ssp. brachyura

Common Name/s:
EnglishSABLE

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria: LR/lc    ver 2.3 (1994)
Year Assessed: 1996
Annotations: Needs updating
Assessor/s: Mustelid Specialist Group

Geographic Range

Range Description: Ural Mtns to Siberia, Kamchatka, Sakhalin (Russian Federation); Mongolia; Sinkiang and northeastern China; North Korea; Hokkaido (Japan); originally west to northern Scandanavia and western Poland. The list of former range countries is not complete.
Countries: Native:

China; Finland; Japan (Hokkaido); Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Mongolia; Russian Federation


Regionally extinct:

Poland

Habitat and Ecology

System: Terrestrial

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Small Carnivore Specialist Group. For more information, see the Specialist Group website


Citation: Mustelid Specialist Group 1996. Martes zibellina. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 29 August 2008.
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