Gray marmot
| Gray marmot | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Genus: | Marmota |
| Subgenus: | Marmota |
| Species: | M. baibacina |
| Binomial name | |
| Marmota baibacina Kastschenko, 1899 | |
The gray marmot or Altai marmot (Marmota baibacina) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Xinjiang Province in China, southeastern Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and in the Altai and Tien Shan Mountains in southeastern Siberia in Russia.[2] In the Mongolian Altai, its range overlaps with that of the Tarbagan marmot.[3]
References
- ↑ Batbold, J.; Batsaikhan, N. & Shar, S. (2008). "Marmota baibacina". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
- ↑ Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. Pp. 754-818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
- ↑ Konstantin A. Rogovin: Habitat use by two species of Mongolian marmots (Marmota sibirica and M. baibacina) in a zone of sympatry. Acta Theriologica 37 (4): 345-350. Abstract online
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