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) to "the Kachar of Nepal."

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

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (India).

SYNONYMS: hemachalana (Hodgson, 1843); hodgsoni (Blanford, 1879); robusta (MilneEdwards, 1872); tataricus (Jameson, 1847); tibetanus (Gray, 1847).

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