Menzbier's marmot
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Menzbier's marmot
| Menzbier's Marmot | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Genus: | Marmota |
| Subgenus: | Marmota |
| Species: | M. menzbieri |
| Binomial name | |
| Marmota menzbieri (Kashkarov, 1925) |
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The Menzbier's Marmot (Marmota menzbieri) is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is found in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Its natural habitat is temperate grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss. Its name commemorates Russian zoologist Mikhail Aleksandrovich Menzbier.
References
- ^ Tsytsulina, K. (2008). Marmota menzbieri. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded 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.
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