Marmota sibirica (Radde, 1862)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 1), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 345-382 : 356

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scientific name	Marmota sibirica (Radde, 1862)
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Marmota sibirica (Radde, 1862) View in CoL . Reise Sud. Ost. Sibir., p. 159.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., R.S.F.S. R., Chitinsk Obi., near Tarei-Nor (Lake) .

DISTRIBUTION: S.W. Siberia, Tuva, Transbaikalia ( U.S. S. R.); N. and W. Mongolia; Heilungkiang and Inner Mongolia; formerly Manchuria ( China).

COMMENT: Placed (with baibacina and himalayana ) by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:515, and Corbet, 1978:81, in bobak . Gromov et al., 1965:337-415, and Zimina, ed., 1978, [Marmots. Distribution and Ecology], "Nauka," Moscow, provided evidence of specific distinctness and included caliginosus in this species; see comment under baibacina . Nikol'skii, 1974, Zool. Zh., 53:436-444, analyzed contact between baibacina and sibirica in Tuva; Sokolov and Orlov, 1980:329, also indicated sympatry in N.W. Mongolia.