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Taxonomy
Mus marmota was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.
It was recombined as Arctomys marmotta by Boule and De Villeneuve (1927); it was recombined as Marmota marmota by Blumenbach (1779), Thomas (1911) and Frase and Hoffmann (1980).
It was recombined as Arctomys marmotta by Boule and De Villeneuve (1927); it was recombined as Marmota marmota by Blumenbach (1779), Thomas (1911) and Frase and Hoffmann (1980).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Mus marmota Linnaeus p. 60 |
| 1779 | Marmota marmota Blumenbach |
| 1911 | Marmota marmota Thomas p. 147 |
| 1927 | Arctomys marmotta Boule and De Villeneuve p. 81 |
| 1980 | Marmota marmota Frase and Hoffmann p. 1 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Marmota marmota Linnaeus 1758 [Alpine marmot]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Samuels and Van Valkenburgh 2008, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene | Italy (Verona) | Marmota marmota (43656) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Romania | Marmota marmota (34010) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Italy (Trieste) | Marmota marmota (43701 43704) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | France (Limousin region) | Marmota marmota (36439) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Italy (Vicenza) | Marmota marmota (43692) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Monaco | Arctomys marmotta (191726) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Monaco | Arctomys marmotta (191722) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Italy (Vicenza) | Marmota marmota (43689) |