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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER SCIUROMORPHA
--> FAMILY Sciuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Xerinae
--> TRIBE Marmotini
--> GENUS Marmota
--> SUBGENUS Marmota
SPECIES Marmota (Marmota) menzbieri
| Author: | Kashkarov, 1925. | | Citation: | Trans. Turk. Sci. Soc., 2: 47. | | Common Name: | Menzbier's Marmot | | Type Locality: | "Chigyr-Tash, in the headwaters of the Ugam River, Talass Ala Tau" [Yuzhno-Kazakhstansk. Obl., Kazakhstan]. | | Distribution: | W Tien Shan Mtns, in S Kazakhstan and NW Kirgizia. | | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | Subgenus Marmota (Steppan et al., 1999). Regarded by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:514) as a probable synonym of marmota; but see Corbet (1978c:81). Steppan et al. (1999) found menzbieri to be the sister species to caudata. |
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