Marmota olympus

(C. H. Merriam, 1898)

Olympic Marmot

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Location:USA, WA, Olympic National ParkDate taken:1 January 1975Description:Side view

Distribution :

Olympic Mtns of W Washington (USA).

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 257

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Merriam, C.H. 1898-10-04. Descriptions of three new rodents from the Olympic Mountains, Washington. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 50:352-353.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1647846

Original name as described

Arctomys olympus

Type material

USNM:MAMM:90518

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/35373fed7-f2e6-4a8e-a03f-0e8a93ccafbf

Type locality

"From Timberline at head of Soleduc River, Olympic Mountains, [Olympic Nat. Park] Washington [USA]."

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic

Country distribution

United States

Subregion distribution

USA(WA)

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001735

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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.

Arctomys olympus

C. H. Merriam, 1898

Family

Sciuridae

Root name

olympus

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

USNM:MAMM:90518

Type kind

holotype

Original type locality

Timberline at head of Soleduc River, Olympic Mountains, Washington

Type locality

United States: Washington: Clallam County, Washington.

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/35373fed7-f2e6-4a8e-a03f-0e8a93ccafbf

Authority page

352

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1647846

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

Marmota olympus:

Trouessart, 1904

Family

Sciuridae

Root name

olympus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

344

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53423225

Authority publication

Berlin

Name usages

Trouessart (1904:344, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53423225) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)
Howell (1915:69, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45378101) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15647)
Corbet & Hill (1980:134) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:355, 356) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
Corbet & Hill (1991:142) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
Hoffmann, Anderson, Thorington & Heaney (1993:432) (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 (2016:822) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59599)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #42459) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #42459) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1001735) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/42459/22257452) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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