Tarbagan marmot
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| Tarbagan marmot | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Genus: | Marmota |
| Subgenus: | Marmota |
| Species: | M. sibirica |
| Binomial name | |
| Marmota sibirica (Radde, 1862) |
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The Tarbagan marmot (Marmota sibirica) is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is found in China (Inner Mongolia and Heilungjiang), northern and western Mongolia, and Russia (southwest Siberia, Tuva, Transbaikalia).[2] In the Mongolian Altai the range overlaps with that of the Gray Marmot.[3] The species was classified as Endangered by the IUCN in 2008.[1]
Two subspecies are distinguished:[2]
- M. s. sibirica
- M. s. caliginosus
[edit] References
- ^ a b Batbold, J., Batsaikhan, N., Tsytsulina, K. & Sukchuluun, G. (2008). Marmota sibirica. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 January 2009.
- ^ a b Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds (2005). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12400967.
- ^ Konstantin A. Rogovin: Habitat use by two species of Mongolian marmots (Marmota sibirica and M. baibacina) in a zone of sympatry. Acta Theriologica 37 (4): 345-350. Abstract online
- Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp. 754–818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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