Gray marmot | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Genus: | Marmota |
Subgenus: | Marmota |
Species: | M. baibacina |
Binomial name | |
Marmota baibacina Kastschenko, 1899 |
The gray marmot or Altai marmot (Marmota baibacina) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Xinjiang Province in China, southeastern Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and in the Altai and Tien Shan Mountains in southeastern Siberia in Russia. In the Mongolian Altai, its range overlaps with that of the Tarbagan marmot.