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--> TRIBE Marmotini
GENUS Marmota
Author: | Blumenbach, 1779. | Citation: | Hand. Hilfsb. Nat., 1: 79. | Type Species: | Mus marmota Linnaeus, 1758. | Comments: | Tribe Marmotini (Moore, 1959). North American species reviewed by A. H. Howell (1915); Eurasian species revised by Gromov et al. (1965); amphiberingian species reviewed by Hoffmann et al. (1979); phylogeny tested by Steppan et al. (1999). Frase and Hoffmann (1980) provided a key to North American species. |
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