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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER SCIUROMORPHA
--> FAMILY Sciuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Xerinae
--> TRIBE Marmotini
--> GENUS Marmota
--> SUBGENUS Marmota
SPECIES Marmota (Marmota) broweri
| Author: | Hall and Gilmore, 1934. | | Citation: | Canadian Field Nat., 48: 57. | | Common Name: | Alaska Marmot | | Type Locality: | USA, "Point Lay, Arctic Coast of Alaska" Restricted by Rausch (1953:117) to head of Kukpowruk River, Alaska. | | Distribution: | Brooks Range of N Alaska (USA) from near coast of Chukchi Sea to Alaska-Yukon border; perhaps also N Yukon (Canada). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Marmota (Steppan et al., 1999). Regarded as a synonym of caligata (Hall, 1981) but Rausch and Rausch (1965, 1971) and Hoffmann et al. (1979) considered broweri a distinct species. Steppan et al. (1999) found that broweri is more closely related to the Old World caudata than to Nearctic marmots. |
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