Quaternary biogeography of the Mustelidae family on the Mediterranean islands

• Main Author: Marco Masseti
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Associazione Teriologica Italiana 1995
• Subjects: Quaternary; Mustelidae; Biogeography; Quaternario; Biogeografia; Science; Q; Zoology; QL1-991; Hanno; Many Islands; Lontra; Lutra lutra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-7.1-2-4048; https://doaj.org/article/a8cd0d2a1a044b6da2f30c287247a0fe

Abstract Five taxa of the Mustelidae family now occur on the Mediterranean islands: the pine marten, Martes martes L., 1758, distributed on some of the Balearic and Tyrrhenian islands, the stone marten, M. foina Erxleben, 1777, which occurs on many islands of the basin, the badger, Meles meles Briss...