Marmota vancouverensis

Marmota vancouverensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Sciuromorpha
Template:Simplicidentata Ordo: Rodentia Subordo: Sciuromorpha

Familia: Sciuridae
Subfamilia: Xerinae
Tribus: Marmotini
Genus: Marmota
Species: Marmota vancouverensis

Name

Marmota vancouverensis Swarth, 1911: 201

• Holotype: MVZ 12094, adult ♀, skin, skull and postcranial skeleton, collected by E. Despard on 8 July 1910.
• Type locality: “Mt. Douglas (altitude 4,200 feet [1280 m]), twenty miles [32 km] south of Alberni, Vancouver Island, British Columbia”.

Native distribution areas

Marmota vancouverensis — distribution map

• Canada: British Columbia: Vancouver Island.

References

Primary references

• Swarth, H.S. 1911. Two new species of marmots from Northwestern America. University of California Publications in Zoology 7(6): 201–204. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Hoffmann, R.S., Koeppl, J.W. & Nadler, C.F. 1979. The relationships of the amphiberingian marmots (Mammalia: Sciuridae). Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, The University of Kansas 83: 1–56. BHL Reference page. 
• Hoffmann, R.S., Anderson, C.G., Thorington Jr., R.W. & Heaney, L.R. 1993. Family Sciuridae. Pp. 419–465 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.) . Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 2rd edition. Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington, D.C. ISBN 978-1-56098-217-3. Reference page. 
• Steppan, S.J., Akhverdyan, M.R., Lyapunova, E.A., Fraser, D.G., Vorontsov, N.N., Hoffmann, R.S. & Braun, M.J. 1999. Molecular Phylogeny of the Marmots (Rodentia: Sciuridae): Tests of Evolutionary and Biogeographic Hypotheses. Systematic Biology 48(4): 715–734. DOI: 10.1080/106351599259988 Reference page. 
• Thorington Jr., R.W. & Hoffmann, R.S. 2005. Family Sciuridae. Pp. 754–818 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.) . Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. 2 volumes. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Reference page. 

Links

• Roach, N. 2017. IUCN: Marmota vancouverensis  (Critically Endangered). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T12828A22259184. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T12828A22259184.en. Accessed on 14 June 2024.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Vancouver-Murmeltier
English: Vancouver Island Marmot
polski: Świstak z Vancouver

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