Black-capped marmot

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Black-capped marmot
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Marmota
Subgenus: Marmota
Species: M. camtschatica
Binomial name
Marmota camtschatica
(Pallas, 1811)

The black-capped marmot (Marmota camtschatica) is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is endemic to Russia.

References

  1. Tsytsulina, K. (2008). Marmota camtschatica. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  • Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. pp. 754–818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.


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