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