Marmota broweri

E. R. Hall & Gilmore, 1934

Alaska Marmot

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Location:USA, Alaska, Brooks Range, North Slope borough, Mile Marker 290, Dalton Highway (Alaska Route 11)Date taken:22 July 2015

Distribution :

Brooks Range of N Alaska (USA) from near coast of Chukchi Sea to Alaska-Yukon border; perhaps also N Yukon (Canada).

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 3214

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Hall, E.R. and Gilmore, R.M. 1934-04. Marmota caligata broweri, a new marmot from northern Alaska. The Canadian Field-Naturalist 48(4):57-63.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28103713

Original name as described

Marmota caligata broweri

Type material

MVZ:Mamm:51675

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://arctos.database.museum/guid/MVZ:Mamm:51675

Type locality

"Point Lay, Arctic Coast of Alaska, " USA.

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic

Country distribution

Canada · United States

Subregion distribution

USA(AK)

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001725

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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.

Total: 2 names and synonyms.

Marmota caligata broweri

E. R. Hall & Gilmore, 1934

Family

Sciuridae

Root name

broweri

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MVZ:Mamm:51675

Type kind

holotype

Original type locality

Point Lay, Arctic Coast of Alaska

Type locality

United States: Alaska: 69°44′35″N, 163°0′28″W.

Type specimen URI

https://arctos.database.museum/guid/MVZ:Mamm:51675

Authority page

57

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28103713

Authority publication

The Canadian Field-Naturalist

Marmota broweri:

Corbet & J. Edwards Hill, 1980

Family

Sciuridae

Root name

broweri

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

134

Authority publication

London

Name usages

Corbet & Hill (1980:134) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:354, 355) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
Corbet & Hill (1991:142) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
Hoffmann, Anderson, Thorington & Heaney (1993:431) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69019)
Thorington & Hoffmann (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8554)
Bradley, Ammerman, Baker, Bradley, Cook, Dowler, Jones, Schmidly, Stangl, Van Den Bussche & Würsig (2014:21, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57785977) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/19157)
Wilson, Lacher & Mittermeier (2016:820) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59599)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #42455) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #42455) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001725) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/42455/22258026) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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