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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER SCIUROMORPHA
--> FAMILY Sciuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Xerinae
--> TRIBE Marmotini
--> GENUS Marmota
--> SUBGENUS Petromarmota
SPECIES Marmota (Petromarmota) vancouverensis
| Author: | Swarth, 1911. | | Citation: | Univ. California Publ. Zool., 7: 201. | | Common Name: | Vancouver Island Marmot | | Type Locality: | "Mt. Douglas (altitude 4,200 feet [1280 m]), twenty miles [32 km] south of Alberni, Vancouver Island, British Columbia" [Canada]. | | Distribution: | Mountains of Vancouver Isl (British Columbia, Canada). | | Status: | U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Endangered. | | Comments: | Subgenus Petromarmota; sister species to M. caligata (Steppan et al., 1999). Considered a subspecies of marmota by Rausch (1953). Reviewed by Hoffmann et al. (1979) who confirmed its specific status, and by Nagorsen (1987, Mammalian Species No. 270). |
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