Yellow-throated marten: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the yellow-throated marten lives – recorded in 8 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Martes flavigula
Group	Weasels, otters, badgers & skunks
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	8 countries
Continents	Asia
Class	Mammal
Order	Carnivora
Family	Mustelidae

Where does the yellow-throated marten live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the yellow-throated marten in 8 countries and territories across Asia. Wikidata gives its range as: Nanling Mountains, People's Republic of China, Russia, Korea, Indonesia, Cambodia, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Taiwan.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the yellow-throated marten endangered?

The yellow-throated marten’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the yellow-throated marten?

The yellow-throated marten (Martes flavigula) is a mammal in the order Carnivora and the family Mustelidae, genus Martes. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the yellow-throated marten

The yellow-throated marten (Martes flavigula) is a marten species native to the Himalayas, Southeast and East Asia. Its coat is bright yellow-golden, and its head and back are distinctly darker, blending together black, white, golden-yellow and brown. It is the second-largest marten in the Old World, after the Nilgiri marten, with its tail making up more than half its body length.

It is an omnivore, whose sources of food range from fruit and nectar to invertebrates, rodents, lagomorphs, reptiles and birds, and to small primates and ungulates. It is listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List due to its wide distribution, stable population, occurrence in a number of protected areas and an apparent lack of threats.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Yellow-throated marten (revision 1371990728), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q220248 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).