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Marmota (Marmota) bobak

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Marmota (Marmota) bobak (Müller 1776)

[Mus] bobak Müller 1776, Linne's Vollstand. Natursyst. Suppl.: 40.

Type Locality: " Poland." Restricted by Ognev (1963 a:221) to "right [W] bank of the Dnepr [River]", Ukraine.

Vernacular Names: Bobak Marmot.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Marmota (Marmota) bobak subsp. bobak Müller 1776

Subspecies Marmota (Marmota) bobak subsp. tschaganensis Bazhanov 1930

Distribution: Steppes of E Europe, east through Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia to N and C Kazakhstan.

Conservation: Regaining parts of former range (Bibikov, 1991). IUCN – Lower Risk (conservation dependent).

Discussion: Subgenus Marmota (Steppan et al., 1999). See comments under baibacina, himalayana, and sibirica. Includes kozlovi (Fokanov, 1966) and tschaganensis (Gromov et al., 1965).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 754-818 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 799, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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Biodiversity

Family
Sciuridae
Genus
Marmota
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Müller
Species
bobak
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Marmota (Marmota) bobak (Müller, 1776) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Ognev, S. I. 1963 a. Mammals of the USSR and adjacent countries: Rodents (continued). (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia) [A translation of S. I. Ognev, 1947, Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran: Gryzuny (prodolzhenie). (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii)]. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 5: 1 - 662.
  • Bibikov, D. I. 1991. The steppe marmot- - its past and future. Oryx, 25: 45 - 49.
  • Steppan, S. J., M. R. Akhverdyan, E. A. Lyapunova, D. G. Fraser, N. N. Vorontsov, R. S. Hoffmann, and M. J. Braun. 1999. Molecular phylogeny of the marmots (Rodentia: Sciuridae): Tests of evolutionary and biogeographic hypotheses. Systematic Biology, 48 (4): 715 - 734.
  • Fokanov, V. A. 1966. Novyi podvid surka-baibaka i zamechaniya o geograficheskoi izmenchivosti Marmota bobac Mull. [A new subspecies of bobak marmot, and notes on geographical variability of Marmota bobac Mull.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 45: 1862 - 1866 (in Russian).
  • Gromov, I. M., D. I. Bibikov, N. I. Kalabukhov, and M. N. N. Meier. 1965. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, tom. 3, vyp. 2 [Fauna of the U. S. S. R. Mammals. vol. 3, No. 2]. Nazemnye belich'e [Ground Squirrels]. Nauka, Moscow-Leningrad, 467 pp. (in Russian).