Gray Marmot

Taxobox
name = Gray Marmot


status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3 [Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/12829/all Marmota baibacina] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 29 July 2007]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Sciuridae
genus = "Marmota"
subgenus = "Marmota"
species = "M. baibacina"
binomial = "Marmota baibacina"
binomial_authority = Kastschenko, 1899
synonyms = The Gray Marmot ("Marmota baibacina") is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. 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 [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.] . In the Mongolian Altai the range overlaps with that of the Tarbagan Marmot [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. [http://acta.zbs.bialowieza.pl/?en Abstract online] ] .

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