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| Marmota baibacina Kastschenko, 1899 |
The Gray Marmot (Marmota baibacina) is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is found in Xinjiang-Province in China, Southeastern Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and in the Altai and Tien Shan Mountains in Southeastern Siberia in Russia[2]. In the Mongolian Altai the range overlaps with that of the Tarbagan Marmot[3].
References
- ^ Batbold, J., Batsaikhan, N. & Shar, S. (2008). Marmota baibacina. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2008. Retrieved on 6 January 2009.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. Abstract online
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