Marmota (Marmota) bobak (Müller 1776)

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 : 799

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[Mus] bobak Müller 1776 , Linne's Vollstand. Natursyst. Suppl.: 40.

Type Locality: " Poland." Restricted by Ognev (1963 a:221) to "right [W] bank of the Dnepr [River]", Ukraine .

Vernacular Names: Bobak Marmot.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Marmota (Marmota) bobak subsp. bobak Müller 1776

Subspecies Marmota (Marmota) bobak subsp. tschaganensis Bazhanov 1930

Distribution: Steppes of E Europe, east through Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia to N and C Kazakhstan.

Conservation: Regaining parts of former range ( Bibikov, 1991). IUCN – Lower Risk (conservation dependent).

Discussion: Subgenus Marmota ( Steppan et al., 1999) . See comments under baibacina , himalayana , and sibirica . Includes kozlovi ( Fokanov, 1966) and tschaganensis ( Gromov et al., 1965).

References

Bibikov, D. I. 1991. The steppe marmot- - its past and future. Oryx, 25: 45 - 49.

Fokanov, V. A. 1966. Novyi podvid surka-baibaka i zamechaniya o geograficheskoi izmenchivosti Marmota bobac Mull. [A new subspecies of bobak marmot, and notes on geographical variability of Marmota bobac Mull.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 45: 1862 - 1866 (in Russian).

Gromov, I. M., D. I. Bibikov, N. I. Kalabukhov, and M. N. N. Meier. 1965. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, tom. 3, vyp. 2 [Fauna of the U. S. S. R. Mammals. vol. 3, No. 2]. Nazemnye belich'e [Ground Squirrels]. Nauka, Moscow-Leningrad, 467 pp. (in Russian).

Ognev, S. I. 1963 a. Mammals of the USSR and adjacent countries: Rodents (continued). (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia) [A translation of S. I. Ognev, 1947, Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran: Gryzuny (prodolzhenie). (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii)]. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 5: 1 - 662.

Steppan, S. J., M. R. Akhverdyan, E. A. Lyapunova, D. G. Fraser, N. N. Vorontsov, R. S. Hoffmann, and M. J. Braun. 1999. Molecular phylogeny of the marmots (Rodentia: Sciuridae): Tests of evolutionary and biogeographic hypotheses. Systematic Biology, 48 (4): 715 - 734.