Menzbier's Marmot

Taxobox
name = Menzbier's Marmot


status = VU | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Sciuridae
genus = "Marmota"
subgenus = "Marmota"
species = "M. menzbieri"
binomial = "Marmota menzbieri"
binomial_authority = (Kashkarov, 1925)
synonyms = The Menzbier's Marmot ("Marmota menzbieri") is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is found in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Its natural habitat is temperate grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/12827/all Marmota menzbieri] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 29 July 2007.
*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.