Order Carnivora Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 244 289 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7352980 1ce75501-9bd6-4f4f-b9de-34a393211f7b 0-89327-235-3 7352980 Martes melampus (Wagner, 1841) . Schreber's Saugethiere., SuppL, 2:229 . TYPE LOCALITY: Japan . DISTRIBUTION: Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, Tsushima, intro, on Sado Isl. ( Japan ); Korea ; perhaps parts of China . COMMENT: May be conspecific with americana , martes, and zibellina ; see Anderson, 1970 , Acta Zool. Fenn., 130: 132; Hagmeier, 1961 , Can. Field Nat., 75: 122- 138; and Corbet, 1978: 172; but see also Hall, 1981:981 ; Gromov and Baranova, 1981:256-258 . Heptner and Naumov, eds., 1967 , [Mammals of the Soviet Union], 2(1) p. 507, included Japanese and Korean melampus in zibellina ; but also see Corbet, 1978:173, 174. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412004006006001.