Marmota vancouverensis

Swarth, 1911

Vancouver Island Marmot

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciuromorpha
Family : Sciuridae
Subfamily : Xerinae
Tribe : Marmotini
Genus : Marmota
Subgenus : Petromarmota

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 7, 201

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29510955

Original name as described

Marmota vancouverensis

Type material

MVZ:Mamm:12094

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://arctos.database.museum/guid/MVZ:Mamm:12094

Type locality

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

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic

Country distribution

Canada

IUCN Red List status

Critically Endangered

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001737

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Marmota vancouverensis

Swarth, 1911

Family

Sciuridae

Root name

vancouverensis

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MVZ:Mamm:12094

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://arctos.database.museum/guid/MVZ:Mamm:12094

Authority page

201

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29510955

Authority publication

University of California Publications in Zoology

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:134) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:356) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Thorington & Hoffmann (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8554)
  4. Wilson, Lacher & Mittermeier (2016:821) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59599)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #12828) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #12828) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001737) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  8. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/12828/22259184) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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