Marmota (Marmota) himalayana Hodgson 1841

Marmota (Marmota) himalayana Hodgson 1841, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 10: 777.

Type Locality: "Himalaya...and sandy plains of Tibet"; "potius Tibetensis" (Hodgson, 1843). Restricted by Blanford (1875 a) to "the Kachar of Nepal." .

Vernacular Names: Himalayan Marmot.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Marmota (Marmota) himalayana subsp. himalayana Hodgson 1841

Subspecies Marmota (Marmota) himalayana subsp. robusta Milne-Edwards 1872

Distribution: Montane regions of W China, Nepal, and N India to Ladak.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix III (India); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Marmota (Steppan et al., 1999) . Placed in bobak (Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:515; Corbet, 1978 c:81), but geographically separated from that species; evidence for specific status in Gromov et al. (1965); sister species of sibirica; see also comment under baibacina and sibirica .