Tarbagan Marmot

Tarbagan Marmot

Taxobox
name = Tarbagan Marmot


status = LR/lc | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
familia = Sciuridae
genus = "Marmota"
subgenus = "Marmota"
species = "M. sibirica"
binomial = "Marmota sibirica"
binomial_authority = (Radde, 1862)
synonyms = The Tarbagan marmot ("Marmota sibirica") is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is found in China (Inner Mongolia, Heilungjiang), Northern and Western Mongolia, and Russia (Southwest Siberia, Tuva, Transbaikalia) Literatur| Herausgeber=Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder| Titel=Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference| Auflage=3.| Ver
| Ort=Baltimore| Jahr=2005| ISBN=0-8018-8221-4| [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12400967 online] ] . In the Mongolian Altai the range overlaps with that of the Gray 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] ] . The species was classified as "Least Concern" by the IUCN in 1996 [IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/12832/all online] ] .

Two subspecies are distinguished Literatur| Herausgeber=Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder| Titel=Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference| Auflage=3.| Ver
| Ort=Baltimore| Jahr=2005| ISBN=0-8018-8221-4| [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=12400967 online] ] :
* "M. s. sibirica"
* "M. s. caliginosus"

References

* Baillie, J. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/12832/all Marmota sibirica] . [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.


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