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Vancouver Island Marmot
Marmota vancouverensis Swarth, 1911
Also calledKappenmurmeltier (deu) · Marmota de l'illa de Vancouver (cat) · Marmota-de-Vancouver (por) · Marmotta dell'isola di Vancouver (ita) · Marmotta di Vancouver (ita) · Marmotte de l'île de Vancouver (fra) · Vancouvereilânmarmot (fry) · Vancouveri mormota (hun) · Vancouverinmurmeli (fin) · Vancouvermurmeldyr (nob) · Vankover Ada Marmotu (tur) · Vankuver marmotu (aze) · marmota de Vancouver (spa) · svišť vancouverský (ces)
First described in: Univ. California Publ. Zool. vol.7 p.201
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Discussion: Subgenus Petromarmota; sister species to M. caligata (Steppan et al., 1999). Considered a subspecies of marmota by Rausch (1953). Reviewed by Hoffmann et al. (1979) who confirmed its specific status, and by Nagorsen (1987, Mammalian Species No. 270).
Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae
distribution
Distribution: Mountains of Vancouver Isl (British Columbia, Canada).
Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae
materials_examined
Type Locality: " Mt. Douglas (altitude 4,200 feet [1280 m]), twenty miles [32 km] south of Alberni, Vancouver Island, British Columbia " [Canada].
Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae
discussion
COMMENTS: Considered a subspecies of marmota by Rausch (1953). Reviewed by Hoffmann et al. (1979) who confirmed its specific status, and by Nagorsen (1987, Mammalian Species, 270).
Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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Every page naming Marmota vancouverensis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2437365.