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title: "Yellow-throated Marten"
description: "Martes flavigula — Mamíferos. The yellow-throated marten (Martes flavigula) is a marten species native to the Himalayas, Southeast and East Asia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/yellow-throated-marten
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Yellow-throated Marten

> Martes flavigula — Mamíferos. The yellow-throated marten (Martes flavigula) is a marten species native to the Himalayas, Southeast and East Asia.

- Scientific name: *Martes flavigula*
- Category: `mammals` (Mamíferos)
- Habitats: `forest` (Floresta), `mountains` (Montanhas)
- iNaturalist observations: 1286
- Wikidata: [Q220248](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220248)
- iNaturalist taxon: [41791](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/41791)

## Names

- en: Yellow-throated Marten
- de: Buntmarder
- es: Marta de garganta amarilla
- fr: Martre à gorge jaune
- nl: Maleise bonte marter
- pl: Kuna żółtogardła

## Countries with the most observations

TW (421), IN (237), TH (120), NP (69), KR (62), CN (45), MY (39), BT (21), VN (15), RU (11), ID (8), PK (8)

## Summary

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…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-throated_marten

## Photo

![Yellow-throated Marten](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yellow-throated-marten/medium.jpg)

Photo: Omar Haroon · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/319526447

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/yellow-throated-marten?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).