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Pekania pennanti pennanti (Fisher)

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Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

The fisher (Martes pennanti) is a small carnivorous mammal native to North America. It is a member of the mustelid family (commonly referred to as the weasel family) and a part of the marten genus. The fisher is closely related to but larger than the American marten (Martes americana). The fisher is a forest-dwelling creature whose range covers much of the boreal forest in Canada to the northern United States. Names derived from aboriginal languages include pekan, pequam, wejack, and woolang. It is also called a fisher cat, although it is not a feline.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
28
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 12.6
EDGE Score: 2.61
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  7.441 lbs (3.375 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  35 grams
Female Weight [1]  4.96 lbs (2.25 kg)
Male Weight [1]  9.921 lbs (4.50 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  100 %
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Endothermic [3]  70 %
Diet - Scavenger [3]  30 %
Forages - Scansorial [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  1 year
Male Maturity [2]  1 year
Gestation [2]  45 days
Litter Size [2]  3
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  14 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [5]  27 inches (69 cm)
Weaning [2]  66 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No

Prey / Diet

Arborimus longicaudus (red tree vole)[6]
Erethizon dorsatus (common porcupine)[7]
Martes americana (American Marten)[8]
Procyon lotor (Raccoon)[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Canis lupus (Wolf)1
Lynx canadensis (lynx)1

Consumers

Range Map

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Martes pennanti, Roger A. Powell, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 156, pp. –6 (1981)
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 5Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7Erethizon dorsatum, Charles A. Woods, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 29, pp. 1-6 (1973)
♦ 8Martes americana, Tim W. Clark, Elaine Anderson, Carman Douglas, and Marjorie Strickland, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 289, pp. 1-8 (1987)
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 10International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0