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Tarbagan marmot
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Rodentia
Family:
Sciuridae
Genus:
Marmota
Species:
M. sibirica
Binomial name
Marmota sibirica
(Radde, 1862)
The tarbagan marmot (Marmota sibirica) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in China (Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang), northern and western Mongolia, and Russia (southwest Siberia, Tuva, Transbaikalia).[2] In the Mongolian Altai Mountains, its range overlaps with that of the Gray marmot.[3] The species was classified as endangered by the IUCN in 2008.[1]
Two subspecies are recognized:[2]
M. s. sibirica
M. s. caliginosus
^ abClayton, E. (2016). "Marmota sibirica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T12832A22258643. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T12832A22258643.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
^ abWilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
^Rogovin, Konstantin A. (1992). "Habitat use by two species of Mongolian marmots (Marmota sibirica and M. baibacina) in a zone of sympatry'" (PDF). Acta Theriologica. 37 (4): 345–350. doi:10.4098/at.arch.92-35.
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