Gray marmot
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Gray marmot ( Marmota baibacina ) |
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The gray marmot ( Marmota baibacina ) is a species of the squirrel family . It occurs in the Altai and Tianshan Mountains in southwest Siberia (Russia), in southeast Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Mongolia and in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China . It was introduced in the Eastern Caucasus ( Dagestan ). In the Mongolian Altai Mountains , its distribution area borders on that of the Siberian marmotand both types occur partly sympatric . The species was classified as not endangered by the IUCN in 1996.
There are three subspecies:
- M. b. baibacina
- M. b. centralis
- M. b. kastschenkoi
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Don E. Wilson , DeeAnn M. Reeder (Ed.): Mammal Species of the World. A taxonomic and geographic Reference. Volume 2. 3rd edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 2005, ISBN 0-8018-8221-4 , online ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Konstantin A. Rogovin: Habitat use by two species of Mongolian marmots (Marmota sibirica and M. baibacina) in a zone of sympatry. In: Acta Theriologica. Vol. 37, No. 4, 1992, ISSN 0001-7051 , pp. 345-350, online (PDF; 4.7 MB) .
- ^ IUCN Red List of Threatened Species online
