Marmota himalayana (Hodgson, 1841)

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 : 432

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scientific name	Marmota himalayana (Hodgson, 1841)
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Marmota himalayana (Hodgson, 1841) View in CoL . J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 10:777.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Himalaya ...and sandy plains of Tibet"; "potius Tibetensis" ( Hodgson, 1843). Restricted by Blanford (1875) to "the Kachar of Nepal."

DISTRIBUTION: Montane regions of W China, Nepal, and N India to Ladak.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III ( India).

SYNONYMS: hemachalana ( Hodgson, 1843); hodgsoni ( Blanford, 1879); robusta (MilneEdwards, 1872); tataricus (Jameson, 1847); tibetanus (Gray, 1847).

COMMENTS: Placed in bobak ( Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:515; Corbet, 1978c:81), but geographically separated from that species; evidence for specific status in Gromov et al. (1965); see also comment under baibacina .

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