Pekania

Pekania Temporal range: Pliocene – Recent
Fisher (Pekania pennanti)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Mustelidae
Subfamily:	Guloninae
Genus:	Pekania Gray, 1865
Type species
Martes pennanti Erxleben, 1777
Species
Pekania pennanti †Pekania diluviana †Pekania occulta[1] †Pekania palaeosinensis

Pekania is a genus of mustelid that contains a single living species, the fisher (Pekania pennanti). Formerly placed in the genus Martes, it was determined to be distinct enough to be placed within its own genus. A 2013 study also identified several fossil species formerly in Martes that are more closely related – and probably ancestral – to the fisher, moving them into Pekania as well.^[1]