Marmota marmota (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:60.

TYPE LOCALITY: "in alpibus Helveticis" Restricted by Thomas (1911a: 147) to Swiss Alps .

DISTRIBUTION: Swiss, Italian, and French Alps; W Austria; S Germany; Carpathian (Romania) and Tatra Mtns (Czechoslovakia, Poland); introduced into French Pyrennes, E Austria and N Yugoslavia.

SYNONYMS: alba (Bechstein, 1801); alpina Blumenbach, 1779; latirostris Kratochvil, 1961; marmotta Trouessart, 1904; nigra (Bechstein, 1801); tigrina (Bechstein, 1801).

COMMENTS: Formerly included baibacina, broweri, caligata, camtschatica, and menzbieri (Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Rausch, 1953).