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Subgenus MARMOTOPS « Pocock 



1923. Marmolops Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1922, pt. 4, p. 1200, 

 Feb. 13, 1923. (Type, Mus monax Linnaeus.) 



monax — group 

 Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus) * 



1758. [Mus] monax Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 60. 



1884. Arctomys monax True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29), 



p. 593, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1904. [Marmota] monax Trouessart, Catalogus Mammalium . . . , Suppl., 



fasc. 2, p. 344. 

 Type Locality. — Maryland. Range. — Middle eastern United States from 

 Pennsylvania, New Jersey (?), Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Lower Peninsula of 

 Michigan, and eastern Iowa, south to northern parts of South Carolina, Georgia, 

 Alabama, and Arkansas. 



Marmota monax rufescens A. H. Howell f * 



1914. Marmota monax rufescens A. H. Howell, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing- 

 ton, vol. 27, p. 13, Feb. 2, 1914. 



Type Locality. — Elk River, Sherburne County, Minn. Range. — Eastern North 

 Dakota, central and southern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Upper Peninsula of 

 Michigan, southern Ontario (north to Ottawa River, intergrading to some ex- 

 tent with canadensis on Quebec side of river near Ottawa (see Anderson, Nat. 

 Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946) , p. 106, Jan. 24, 1947) , greater part of New York 

 (including Long Island), higher parts of western Massachusetts, and all of Ver- 

 mont (Osgood, Journ. Maram, vol. 19, No. 4, p. 438, Nov. 14, 1938) . 



Marmota monax bunkeri Black 



1935. Marmota monax bunkeri Black, Journ. Mamm., vol. 16, No. 4, p. 319, 

 Nov. 15, 1935. 



Type Locality. — Seven miles southwest of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kan. 

 Range. — Northeastern Kansas, south to Woodson and Greenwood Counties, and 

 west along Kansas River and tributaries (Hibbard, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 

 vol. 47, p. 72, September 1944), northwestern Missouri, western Iowa and south- 

 eastern Nebraska (Swenk, Journ. Mamm., vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 348-353, Aug. 18, 

 1938). 



Marmota monax preblorum A. H. Howellf* 



1914. Marmota monax preblorum A. H. Howell, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 27, p. 14, Feb. 2, 1914. 



Type Locality. — Wilmington, Middlesex County, Mass. Range. — Southern 

 New England, from Connecticut to New Hampshire and southern Maine. 



Marmota monax ignava (Bangs) * 



1899. Arctomys ignavus Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club., vol. 1, p. 13, 



Feb. 28, 1899. 

 1904. [Marmota monax] ignavus Trouessart, Catalogus Mammalium . . . , 



Suppl., fasc. 2, p. 344. 



07 For status see, A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 56 (April), p. 38, May 18, 1938; 

 and Ellerman, The families and genera of living rodents, vol. 1, p. 455, June 8, 1940. 

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