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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
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--> FAMILY Sciuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Xerinae
--> TRIBE Marmotini
--> GENUS Marmota
--> SUBGENUS Marmota
SPECIES Marmota (Marmota) himalayana
| Author: | Hodgson, 1841. | | Citation: | J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 10: 777. | | Common Name: | Himalayan Marmot | | Type Locality: | "Himalaya...and sandy plains of Tibet"; "potius Tibetensis" (Hodgson, 1843). Restricted by Blanford (1875a) to "the Kachar of Nepal." | | Distribution: | Montane regions of W China, Nepal, and N India to Ladak. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix III (India); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Marmota (Steppan et al., 1999). Placed in bobak (Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:515; Corbet, 1978c:81), but geographically separated from that species; evidence for specific status in Gromov et al. (1965); sister species of sibirica; see also comment under baibacina and sibirica. |
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