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Gray marmot

Gray marmot
Marmota baibacina.jpg
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.



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