Overview
Taxonomy
The Subtribe Marmotina is a member of the Tribe Marmotini. Here is the complete "parentage" of Marmotina:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Deuterostomia
Grobben, 1908 - Deuterostomes
- Infrakingdom: Chordonia
(Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum: Chordata
Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
Cuvier, 1812 - Vertebrates
- Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass: Tetrapoda
Goodrich, 1930 - Tetrapods
- Class: Mammalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Mammals
- Subclass: Theriiformes
(Rowe, 1988) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
- Infraclass: Holotheria
(Wible et al., 1995) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
- Superlegion: Trechnotheria
McKenna, 1975
- Legion: Cladotheria
McKenna, 1975
- Sublegion: Zatheria
McKenna, 1975
- Infralegion: Tribosphenida
(McKenna, 1975) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
- Supercohort: Theria
(Parker & Haswell, 1897) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997 - a genus of Click Beetles (Elateridae)
- Cohort: Placentalia
(Owen, 1837) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997 - Placentals
- Magnorder: Epitheria
(Mckenna, 1975) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Superorder: Preptotheria
(McKenna, 1975) McKenna, in Stucky & McKenna, in Benton, ed., 1993
- Grandorder: Anagalida
(Szalay & McKenna, 1971) McKenna, 1975
- Mirorder: Simplicidentata
(Weber, 1904) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
- Order: Rodentia Bowdich, 1821 - Rodents
- Mirorder: Simplicidentata
(Weber, 1904) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
- Grandorder: Anagalida
(Szalay & McKenna, 1971) McKenna, 1975
- Superorder: Preptotheria
(McKenna, 1975) McKenna, in Stucky & McKenna, in Benton, ed., 1993
- Magnorder: Epitheria
(Mckenna, 1975) M.c. Mckenna & S.k. Bell, 1997
- Cohort: Placentalia
(Owen, 1837) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997 - Placentals
- Supercohort: Theria
(Parker & Haswell, 1897) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997 - a genus of Click Beetles (Elateridae)
- Infralegion: Tribosphenida
(McKenna, 1975) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
- Sublegion: Zatheria
McKenna, 1975
- Legion: Cladotheria
McKenna, 1975
- Superlegion: Trechnotheria
McKenna, 1975
- Infraclass: Holotheria
(Wible et al., 1995) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
- Subclass: Theriiformes
(Rowe, 1988) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
- Class: Mammalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Mammals
- Superclass: Tetrapoda
Goodrich, 1930 - Tetrapods
- Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
Cuvier, 1812 - Vertebrates
- Phylum: Chordata
Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
- Infrakingdom: Chordonia
(Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Branch: Deuterostomia
Grobben, 1908 - Deuterostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Subtribe Marmotina is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (5): Arctomyoides · Marmota · Miospermophilus · Paenemarmota · Protospermophilus
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 74 species and subspecies in the Subtribe Marmotina.
Genera
Arctomyoides
Marmota
The marmots are generally large ground squirrels in the genus Marmota, of which there are 15 species. Those most often referred to as marmots tend to live in mountainous areas, such as the Alps, northern Apennines, Eurasian steppes, Carpathians, Tatras, and Pyrenees in Europe and northwestern Asia; the Rocky Mountains, Black Hills, Cascades, and Sierra Nevada in North America; and the Deosai Plateau in Pakistan and Ladakh in India. The groundhog, however, is also sometimes called a marmot, while the similarly sized, but more social, prairie dog is not classified in the genus Marmota but in the related genus Cynomys. [more]
Miospermophilus
Paenemarmota
Protospermophilus
At least 6 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Protospermophilus.
More info about the Genus Protospermophilus may be found here.
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