Authority citation: Stroganov, S.U. and Yudin, B.S. 1956. К систематике некоторых видов грызунов западной Сибири. Труды Томского государственного университета 142:291-294.
Original name as described: Marmota baibacina kastschenkoi
Nominal names: kastschenkoi Stroganov & Yudin, 1956
Taxonomy
Subclass: Theria -- Infraclass: Placentalia -- Order: Rodentia -- Family: Sciuridae -- Subfamily: Xerinae -- Tribe: Marmotini
Type specimen voucher catalogue number: SZM N 6884
Type locality: "Tomskaâ obl., okr. g. Tomska, s. Lâzgino" (= village Lâzgino, vicinity of Tomsk, Tomsk Region, western Siberia, Russia).
Country distribution (coarse map shown below; most species exist in only part of countries): Russia (RUS)
Species Status: This species is currently living, it lives in wild habitats, its taxonomic status is currently accepted, and it is newly recognized since MSW3 2005.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species status: Not evaluated
Species-specific notes: split from M. baibacina
Citation: KRYŠTUFEK, B., & VOHRALíK, V. (2013). Taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic rodents (Rodentia). Part 2. Sciuridae: Urocitellus, Marmota and Sciurotamias. Lynx, 44, 27-138.
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