Marmota (Marmota) himalayana Hodgson 1841

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 754-818 : 801

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Marmota (Marmota) himalayana Hodgson 1841
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Marmota (Marmota) himalayana Hodgson 1841 View in CoL

Marmota (Marmota) himalayana Hodgson 1841 View in CoL , J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 10: 777.

Type Locality: "Himalaya...and sandy plains of Tibet"; "potius Tibetensis" ( Hodgson, 1843). Restricted by Blanford (1875 a) to "the Kachar of Nepal." .

Vernacular Names: Himalayan Marmot.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Marmota (Marmota) himalayana subsp. himalayana Hodgson 1841

Subspecies Marmota (Marmota) himalayana subsp. robusta Milne-Edwards 1872

Distribution: Montane regions of W China, Nepal, and N India to Ladak.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix III ( India); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Marmota ( Steppan et al., 1999) . Placed in bobak ( Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:515; Corbet, 1978 c: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 .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Sciuridae

Genus

Marmota

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Marmota (Marmota) himalayana Hodgson 1841

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
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Marmota (Marmota) himalayana

Hodgson 1841: 777
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