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.
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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 .
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