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Marmota (Marmota) broweri Hall and Gilmore 1934

Description

Marmota (Marmota) broweri Hall and Gilmore 1934

Marmota (Marmota) broweri Hall and Gilmore 1934, Canadian Field Nat., 48: 57.

Type Locality: USA, "Point Lay, Arctic Coast of Alaska " Restricted by Rausch (1953:117) to head of Kukpowruk River, Alaska.

Vernacular Names: Alaska Marmot.

Distribution: Brooks Range of N Alaska (USA) from near coast of Chukchi Sea to Alaska-Yukon border; perhaps also N Yukon (Canada).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Marmota (Steppan et al., 1999). Regarded as a synonym of caligata (Hall, 1981) but Rausch and Rausch (1965, 1971) and Hoffmann et al. (1979) considered broweri a distinct species. Steppan et al. (1999) found that broweri is more closely related to the Old World caudata than to Nearctic marmots.

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 800, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hall and Gilmore
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Sciuridae
Genus
Marmota
Species
broweri
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Marmota (Marmota) broweri and, 1934 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Rausch, R. L. 1953. On the status of some Arctic mammals. Arctic (Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America), 6: 91 - 148.
  • 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.
  • Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.
  • Rausch, R. L., and V. R. Rausch. 1965. Cytogenetic evidence for the specific distinction of an Alaskan marmot, Marmota broweri Hall and Gilmore (Mammalia: Sciuridae). Chromosoma (Berlin), 16: 618 - 623.
  • Rausch, R. L., and V. R. Rausch. 1971. The somatic chromosomes of some North American marmots. Mammalia, 35: 85 - 101.
  • Hoffmann, R. S., J. W. Koeppl, and C. F. Nadler. 1979. The relationships of the amphiberingian marmots (Mammalia: Sciuridae). Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 83: 1 - 56.