Marmota Blumenbach, 1779 . Hand. Hilfsb. Nat., 1:79.

TYPE SPECIES: Mus marmota Linnaeus, 1758 .

SYNONYMS: Arctomys Schreber, 1780; Glis Erxleben, 1777; Lagomys Storr, 1780; Lipura Storr, 1780; Marmotops Pocock, 1922 .

COMMENTS: Tribe Marmotini (Moore, 1959) . North American species reviewed by Howell (1915); Eurasian species revised by Gromov et al. (1965); amphiberingian species reviewed by Hoffmann et al. (1979). Frase and Hoffmann (1980) provided a key to North American species.