Tarbagan marmot | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Genus: | Marmota |
Subgenus: | Marmota |
Species: | M. sibirica |
Binomial name | |
Marmota sibirica (Radde, 1862) |
The Tarbagan marmot (Marmota sibirica) is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is found in China (Inner Mongolia and Heilungjiang), northern and western Mongolia, and Russia (southwest Siberia, Tuva, Transbaikalia).[2]. In the Mongolian Altai the range overlaps with that of the Gray Marmot[3]. The species was classified as Endangered by the IUCN in 2008.[1]
Two subspecies are distinguished:[2]