Marmota (Marmota) caudata Geoffroy 1844
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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.
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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.
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/91C4B717759630DB830679AF52629BE0 (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/93B49F39469C67BE38564BD803C1E751 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231538552 (URL)
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- 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).