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Marmota (Marmota) caudata Geoffroy 1844

Description

Marmota (Marmota) caudata Geoffroy 1844

Marmota (Marmota) caudata Geoffroy 1844, in: Jacquemont, Voy. dans l'Inde, 4, Zool.: 66.

Type Locality: "Hombur [Ghombur] area, upper reaches of the Indus in Kashmir [India]" (Ognev, 1963 a:284).

Vernacular Names: Long-tailed Marmot.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Marmota (Marmota) caudata subsp. caudata Geoffroy 1844

Subspecies Marmota (Marmota) caudata subsp. aurea Blanford 1875

Subspecies Marmota (Marmota) caudata subsp. dichrous Anderson 1875

Distribution: W Tien Shan through the Pamirs (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan) to Hindu Kush (Afghanistan), Pakistan, Kashmir (India), and mountains of extreme W Xinjiang and Xizang (China).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix III (India); IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: Subgenus Marmota (Steppan et al., 1999). Includes dichrous (Corbet, 1978 c:82); but also see Gromov et al. (1965:440) who listed it as a distinct species.

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 801, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Geoffroy
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Sciuridae
Genus
Marmota
Species
caudata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Marmota (Marmota) caudata Geoffroy, 1844 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.
  • 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.
  • Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.
  • 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).