Marmota (Petromarmota) vancouverensis Swarth 1911

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 754-818 : 802

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scientific name	Marmota (Petromarmota) vancouverensis Swarth 1911
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Marmota (Petromarmota) vancouverensis Swarth 1911 , Univ. California Publ. Zool., 7: 201.

Type Locality: "Mt. Douglas (altitude 4,200 feet [1280 m]), twenty miles [32 km] south of Alberni, Vancouver Island, British Columbia " [ Canada].

Vernacular Names: Vancouver Island Marmot.

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

Conservation: U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Endangered.

Discussion: Subgenus Petromarmota ; sister species to M. caligata ( Steppan et al., 1999) . 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 No. 270).