Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae Author Robert S. Hoffmann Author Charles G. Anderson text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 419 465 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353130 1-56098-217-9 7353130 Marmota Blumenbach, 1779 . Hand. Hilfsb. Nat., 1:79 . TYPE SPECIES: Mus marmota Linnaeus, 1758 . SYNONYMS: Arctomys Schreber, 1780 ; Glis Erxleben, 1777 ; Lagomys Storr, 1780 ; Lipura Storr, 1780 ; Marmotops Pocock, 1922 . COMMENTS: Tribe Marmotini ( Moore, 1959 ) . North American species reviewed by Howell (1915) ; Eurasian species revised by Gromov et al. (1965) ; amphiberingian species reviewed by Hoffmann et al. (1979) . Frase and Hoffmann (1980) provided a key to North American species.