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Marmota (Marmota) sibirica Radde 1862

Description

Marmota (Marmota) sibirica Radde 1862

Marmota (Marmota) sibirica Radde 1862, Reise in den Suden von Ost-Sibierien: 159.

Type Locality: "Kulusutai, near Lake Torei-Nor, southeast Transbaikal" [Chitinsk Obl., Russia].

Vernacular Names: Tarbagan Marmot.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Marmota (Marmota) sibirica subsp. sibirica Radde 1862

Subspecies Marmota (Marmota) sibirica subsp. caliginosus Bannikov and Skalon 1949

Distribution: SW Siberia, Tuva, Transbaikalia (Russia); N and W Mongolia; Heilungjiang and Inner Mongolia (China).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Marmota (Steppan et al., 1999). Placed (with baibacina) in bobak (Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:515; Corbet, 1978 c:81). Gromov et al. (1965) and Zimina (1978) provided evidence of specific distinctness and included caliginosus in this species; see comment under baibacina and sibirica. Steppan et al. (1999) found sibirica and himalayana to be sister species. Nikol'skii (1974) and Smirin et al. (1985) analyzed contact between baibacina and sibirica in Tuva and the Mongolian Altai; Sokolov and Orlov (1980:329) also indicated sympatry in NW Mongolia; limited hybridization is possible.

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 802, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Radde
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Sciuridae
Genus
Marmota
Species
sibirica
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Marmota (Marmota) sibirica Radde, 1862 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • 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.
  • Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.
  • 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).
  • Zimina, R. P. (ed.). 1978. Surki. Rasprostranenie i ekologiya [Marmots. distribution and ecology]. Nauka, Moscow, 222 pp. (in Russian).
  • Nikol'skii, A. A. 1974. Geograficheskaya izmenchivost' ritmicheskoi organizatsii zvukovo signala surkov gruppy bobac (Rodentia, Sciuridae) [Geographic variation in rhythmic organization of sound signal in marmots of the bobac group ...]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 53: 436 - 444 (in Russian).
  • Smirin, Yu. M., N. A. Formozov, D. I. Bibikov, and D. Myagmarzhav. 1985. Kharakteristika poselenii dvukh vidov surkov (Marmota, Rodentia, Sciuridae) v zone ikh kontakta na Mongol'skom Altae [Characteristics of colonies of two species of marmots ... in their contact zone in the Mongolian Altai]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 64: 1873 - 1885 (in Russian).
  • Sokolov, V. E., and V. N. Orlov. 1980. Opredelitel' mlekopitayushchickh Mongol'skoi Narodnoi Respubliki [Guide to the mammals of the Mongolian People's Republic]. Nauka, Moscow, 351 pp. (in Russian).