Marmot pulau vancouver
Marmot pulau vancouver (Marmota vancouverensis) adalah sebuah spesies marmot yang endemik ke Pulau Vancouver, British Columbia, Kanada.[3] Spesies ini menjadi satu-satunya dari lima mamalia daratan yang endemik ke Kanada.[4]
| Marmot pulau vancouver | |
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| Di Distrik Regional Alberni-Clayoquot, British Columbia, Kanada | |
Klasifikasi ilmiah 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kerajaan: | Animalia |
| Filum: | Chordata |
| Kelas: | Mammalia |
| Ordo: | Rodentia |
| Famili: | Sciuridae |
| Genus: | Marmota |
| Subgenus: | Marmota (Petromarmota) |
| Spesies: | M. vancouverensis
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| Nama binomial | |
| Marmota vancouverensis (Swarth, 1911)
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Sebaran masa kini
Sebaran lama
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Sebaran
suntingM. vancouverensis hidup di atas ketinggian 1000 mdpl di padang rumput yang menghadap selatan hingga barat, dan kelangkaan habitat diyakini menjadi alasan utama kelangkaannya.[5][6]
Referensi
sunting- ^ Roach, N. (2017). "Marmota vancouverensis". 2017: e.T12828A22259184. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T12828A22259184.en.
- ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Diakses tanggal 6 October 2022.
- ^ Canada, Environment and Climate Change (6 December 2019). "Vancouver Island Marmot (Marmota vancouverensis): COSEWIC assessment and status report 2019". www.canada.ca. Diakses tanggal 2022-09-22.
- ^ "Hide and seek: The race to save the Vancouver Island Marmot". canadiangeographic.ca (dalam bahasa Inggris). Diakses tanggal 2023-09-23.
- ^ Bryant, A.A.; D.W. Janz (1996). "Distribution and abundance of Vancouver Island marmots (Marmota vancouverensis)" (PDF). Canadian Journal of Zoology. 74 (4): 667–677. doi:10.1139/z96-075.
- ^ Milko, R.J.; A.M. Bell (1986). "Subalpine meadow vegetation of south central Vancouver Island". Canadian Journal of Botany. 64 (4): 815. doi:10.1139/b86-106.
Bacaan lanjut
sunting- Bryant, Andrew; Don Blood. "Vancouver Island marmot" (PDF). Diakses tanggal 14 July 2009.. Species at Risk series, B.C. Ministry of Environment, Victoria, February 1999. 6 pp.
- Champan, Joseph A., and George A. Feldhamer, eds. Wild Mammals of North America. The Johns Hopkins UP, 1982.
- Markels, Alex (May 2004). "Last stand". Audubon Magazine. Diakses tanggal 14 July 2009.
- Michael, Huchins, ed. "Vancouver Island Marmot." Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopidia. 16 vols. Gale, 2004.
- Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. Pp. 754–818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
- Wilson, Don E., and Sue Ruff, eds. The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1999.
- "Vancouver Island Marmot." World Book Encyclopedia. 13th ed. Chicago: World Book Incorporated, 2008.