Marmota vancouverensis Swarth, 1911

Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 419-465 : 433

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scientific name	Marmota vancouverensis Swarth, 1911
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Marmota vancouverensis Swarth, 1911 View in CoL . 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).