Marmota (Petromarmota) vancouverensis Swarth 1911

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 : 802

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Marmota (Petromarmota) vancouverensis Swarth 1911
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Marmota (Petromarmota) vancouverensis Swarth 1911 View in CoL

Marmota (Petromarmota) vancouverensis Swarth 1911 View in CoL , Univ. California Publ. Zool., 7: 201.

Type Locality: "Mt. Douglas (altitude 4,200 feet [1280 m]), twenty miles [32 km] south of Alberni, Vancouver Island, British Columbia " [ Canada].

Vernacular Names: Vancouver Island Marmot.

Distribution: Mountains of Vancouver Isl (British Columbia, Canada).

Conservation: U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: 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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Sciuridae

Genus

Marmota

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Marmota (Petromarmota) vancouverensis Swarth 1911

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Marmota (Petromarmota) vancouverensis

Swarth 1911: 201
1911
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