Black-capped marmot

Black-capped marmot
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 family Sciuridae. It is endemic to Russia.

References

  1. Tsytsulina, K. (2008). "Marmota camtschatica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 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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