Marmota baibacina Kastschenko, 1899

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 : 430-431

Marmota baibacina Kastschenko, 1899 . Rezul't. Altaisk. Zool. Exp. 1898, p. 62.

TYPE LOCALITY: " ...Multa River, near Nizhne-Uimon in the Altai Mountains" [Altaisk. Krai, Russia] ( Ognev, 1963a: 252). Alternatively, Aktol' River near Cherga, Gorno-Altaisk. A.O. (Kuznetsov, in Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:514) .

DISTRIBUTION: Altai Mtns, SW Siberia ( Russia), SE Kazakhstan, Kirgizistan; Mongolia; Xinjiang ( China). Introduced into Caucasus Mtns (Dagestan, Russia; Gromov et al., 1965:360).

SYNONYMS: aphanasievi Kuznetsov, 1965; centralis (Thomas, 1909); kastschenkoi Stroganov and Yudin, 1956; lewisi (Audubon and Bachman, 1854); ognevi Scalon, 1950.

COMMENTS: Placed by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:514) in marmota , and by Corbet (1978c:81) in bobak ; Kapitonov (1966) analyzed purported hybridization between baibacina and bobak , while Nikol'skii (1974) and Nikol'skii et al. (1983) found speciesspecific vocalizations. Most Russian authors retain both as distinct species ( Gromov et al., 1965:337-387; Zimina, 1978; Zholnerovskaya et al., 1990) and include centralis in this species. Kapitonov (1966) indicated that the population called aphanasievi is included in this species; but also see Corbet (1978c:81). Includes lewisi, a nomen oblitum ( Hoffmann, 1977); baibacina (Brandt, 1843) is a nomen nudum. See also bobak , sibirica .