Himalayan marmot

Himalayan marmot
Himalayan marmot ( Marmota himalayana )
Systematics
Subordination : Squirrel relatives (Sciuromorpha) Family : Squirrel (Sciuridae) Subfamily : Ground Squirrel (Xerinae) Tribe : Real ground squirrels (Marmotini) Genre : Marmots ( marmota ) Type : Himalayan marmot
Scientific name
Marmota himalayana
( Hodgson , 1841)

The Himalayan marmot ( Marmota himalayana ) is a species from the genus of the marmots . It is considered to have been very little researched.

distribution

Despite its name, the range of the Himalayan marmot does not only include the Himalayas . Its distribution area extends rather from the Nepalese Himalayas and the Kuenlun to the eastern Nanschan and the mountains of the Sikang province .

description

The Himalayan marmot is one of the largest and heaviest species within the genus of the marmots. Individual animals can be up to 70 centimeters long and sometimes weigh up to nine kilograms. The Menzbier marmot , the smallest of the marmots, is only 40 to 45 centimeters tall and weighs an average of 2.5 kilograms.

Systematics

Within the marmots, the steppe marmot is probably one of the closest relatives. It has occasionally even been classified as a subspecies over the past few decades.

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literature

• Dmitri Iwanowitsch Bibikow : The marmots of the world. Marmota (= The New Brehm Library. Vol. 388). 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition. Westarp-Wissenschaften et al., Magdeburg et al. 1996, ISBN 3-89432-426-0 .
• Monika Preleuthner, Gerhard Aubrecht (Ed.): Marmots (= catalog of the Upper Austrian State Museum. NF No. 146 = Stapfia. Vol. 63). Biology Center, Linz 1999, ISBN 3-85474-044-1 , online at ZOBODAT

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bibikow: The marmots of the world. 1996, p. 52.

Web links

Commons : Himalayan Marmot ( Marmota himalayana )  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Marmota himalayana inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Molur, S. & Shreshtha, TK, 2008. Retrieved December 21, 2013.