Marmota caudata (Geoffroy, 1844)

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 : 431-432

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scientific name	Marmota caudata (Geoffroy, 1844)
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Marmota caudata (Geoffroy, 1844) View in CoL . In Jacquemont, Voy. dans l'lnde, 4, Zool., p. 66.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Hombur [Ghombur] area, upper reaches of the Indus in Kashmir [ India]" ( Ognev, 1963a:284) .

DISTRIBUTION: W Tien Shan through the Pamirs (Kirgizistan, Tadzhikistan) to Hindu Kush ( Afghanistan), Pakistan, Kashmir ( India), and mtns of extreme W Xinjiang and Xizang ( China).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III ( India).

SYNONYMS: aurea (Blanford, 1875); dichrous (Anderson, 1875); flavina (Thomas, 1909); littledalei (Thomas, 1909); stirlingi Thomas, 1916.

COMMENTS: Includes dichrous ( Corbet, 1978c:82); but also see Gromov et al. (1965:440) who listed it as a distinct species.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Sciuridae
Genus	Marmota