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--> GENUS Marmota
--> SUBGENUS Marmota
SPECIES Marmota (Marmota) caudata
Author: | Geoffroy, 1844. | Citation: | In Jacquemont, Voy. dans l'Inde, 4, Zool.: 66. | Common Name: | Long-tailed Marmot | Type Locality: | "Hombur [Ghombur] area, upper reaches of the Indus in Kashmir [India]" (Ognev, 1963a:284). | Distribution: | W Tien Shan through the Pamirs (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan) to Hindu Kush (Afghanistan), Pakistan, Kashmir (India), and mountains of extreme W Xinjiang and Xizang (China). | Status: | CITES – Appendix III (India); IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). | Comments: | Subgenus Marmota (Steppan et al., 1999). Includes dichrous (Corbet, 1978c:82); but also see Gromov et al. (1965:440) who listed it as a distinct species. |
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