Marmota vancouverensis Swarth, 1911 . Univ. California Pubi. Zool., 7:201.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Mt. Douglas (altitude 4,200 feet), twenty miles south of Alberni, Vancouver Island, British Columbia " [Canada] .

DISTRIBUTION: Mountains of Vancouver Isl (British Columbia, Canada).

STATUS: U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered.

COMMENTS: Considered a subspecies of marmota by Rausch (1953). Reviewed by Hoffmann et al. (1979) who confirmed its specific status, and by Nagorsen (1987, Mammalian Species, 270).