🦡American marten
Amerikansk mård (Martes americana) är ett rovdjur i släktet mårdar som förekommer i Nordamerika. Det finns stora likheter mellan den amerikanska och den europeiska mården och förstnämnda djur betraktas av några zoologer som underart till den sistnämnda.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 0.89 kg
- Body length
- 0.42 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 19 years
Everything we know about the American marten
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.89 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 0.88 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.42 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass16 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan19 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 18 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length6.1 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity1.2 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation28 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 3COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 3AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range3.66 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density0.67 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.9 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for American marten yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCarnivora
- ›familyMustelidae
- ›genusMartes
- ›speciesMartes americana
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- familyMustelidae
- subfamilyMartinae
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderCaniformia
- familyMustelidae
- subfamilyMartinae
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