Collection of Marmots of
the Siberian Zoological Museum SZMN



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Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
(Novosibirsk, Russia)
Institute building

The Museum was founded in 1960 as a laboratory named Zoological Museum in the Biological Institute of the Siberian Division of the Academy of Science of the USSR. Its first head was Prof. I.V. Stebaev (in 1960-1964), than it was headed by B.S. Yudin (1965-1981), Prof. A.I. Tsherepanov (1981-1982), Prof. G.S. Zolotarenko (1983-1987).
Since 1987 the Museum is headed by Prof. Vyacheslav Genrikhovich Mordkovich.

Total area of the Museum is 400 m2, 270 m2 of which is occupied by its collections.

Official address:
Siberian Zoological Museum
Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology
Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Frunze street 11
Novosibirsk 91
630091 RUSSIA

Phone: +7(3832)170633
FAX: +7(3832)170973
E-mail: [email protected]

Curator: Elena I. Zholnerovskaya, Curator of Mammals,
Collection of Mammals (105000 specimens and 284 species) Official Internet Site or, or Mirror in USA.

The Siberian Zoological Museum is the largest depository of zoological materials in Asian part of Russia. The theriological collection is one of the 3 which have more than 105,000 samples representing 284 species of mammals. Collection of marmots consist of 1102 specimens representing 8 species unique by the way it’s specifics.

The main collection (835 specimens) concern to Marmota baibacina Kastschenko, 1899, in the main to the most interesting of the systematical plan altai-mongolian “knot” of marmots (602 specimens) from Kosh-Agachskyi district of the Altai Republic: 1932, 1933 - collection of E.M.Korzinkina, 1958-1962 - collector L.I.Galkina, 1985 - coll. E.I.Zholnerovskaya, and 1 specimens from Mongolia (Sailyugem range, 1980, coll. E.I.Zholnerovskaya). Well presented (118 specimens) is ecologically isolated M. b. kastschenkoi Stroganov et Judin, 1956 (Novosibirskaya region, 1931-1977, coll. L.I.Galkina and B.S.Yudin). The HOLOTYPE of this subspecies is kept in the Siberian Zoological Museum. Most interesting are 111 skulls from the Southern Altai (1987, 1988, coll. V.K.Zinchenko). The two skulls from island population are unique (Tuva, Island on Khindiktig-Khol Lake, 1989, coll. E.I.Zholnerovskaya).

There are 111 specimens of Marmota bobak Muller, 1776. In the majority it is M. b. schaganensis Bazhanov, 1930 from Kazakhstan: Turgaiskaya region (1958, 4 skulls), Tselinogradskaya (now - Astana) region (80 specimens, including embryos, 1957, coll. L.I.Galkina; 1966, coll. S.V.Tomskikh). Well presented is M. b. kozlovi Fokanov, 1966 - 25 skulls from Uljanovskaya region, 1985, coll. E.I.Zholnerovskaya.

Marmota sibirica Radde, 1862 from the Museum are 134 specimens. Good presented M. s. sibirica Radde, 1862: 4 skulls from Buryatia (1972, 1973, coll. Ts.Z.Dozhiev), 66 skulls from Chitinskaya region (different years, since 1929 - coll. P.Yakishov, to 1957 - coll. B.I.Peshkov, S.V.Tomskihk). M. sibirica from Tuva (33 specimens) concern apparently to M. s. caliginosus Bannikov et Skalon, 1949 (1945, 1947, coll. A.I.Yanushevich; 1965, coll. N.D.Ovodov; 1976, coll. V.V.Suntsov). Be of the special importance in my view has series of skulls (31 specimens) from Mongolia (Khangai range, 1977, coll. Yu.G.Shvetsov; Khenteiskyi district, 1980, coll. E.I.Zholnerovskaya).

There are 11 skulls of Marmota caudata Geoffroy, 1842 from Tadjikistan: Leninabadskaya (now - Khodzhent) region, 1952, coll. V.I.Chernyshov, 1959, coll. L.I.Lindt, and Mountain Badakhshan - 1972, coll. R.A.Potapkina.

Marmota camtschatica Pallas, 1811 (7 specimens) concern to the M. c. doppelmayeri Birula, 1922 (Buryatia, 1975, coll. Yu.G.Shvetsov; 1990, coll. E.I.Zholnerovskaya) and M. c. camtschatica Pallas, 1811 (Kamchatka, Sredinnyi range, 1990, coll. V.A.Tokarsky).

Three specimens of Marmota menzbieri Kaschkarov, 1925 are in the collection obtain from Kirghizstan, Chatkalsky range, 1991, coll. E.I.Zholnerovskaya.

You can see also Marmota marmota Linnaeus, 1758 (1 skin with skull, 1922, coll. S.Jager) and nearctic Marmota flaviventris Audubon et Bachman, 1841 (1 skull, 1979, coll. C.F.Nadler) received by exchange.



Genus MARMOTA Blumenbach, 1779


Marmota marmota (Linnaeus, 1758)

Total : 1 specimen.
SWITZERLAND, Graubunden, Avers, Juppa "Gruaba", 1992, collector Simon Jager - 1 skin with skull.

Marmota flaviventris Audubon et Bachman, 1841

total : 1 specimen.
USA, Washington, Grand Coulre, 1979, collector C.F.Nadler - 1 skull.

Marmota bobak (Muller, 1776)

Total : 111 specimens.
KAZAKHSTAN:
Tselinogradskaya (now Astana) region:
Ermentauskyi district, Ermentau village, 1966 - 17 skulls.
Seletinskyi district, Bogembay village, 1957 - 5 skins with skull, 54 skulls, 4 skins (+embryons).
Turgayskaya region, Lake Shoindykol, 1958 - 4 skulls.
RUSSIAN FEDERATION:
Rostovskaya region, Chertkovskyi district, Chertkovo village, 1983 - 2 skulls.
Uljyanovskaya region, Novospasskyi district, Novospassk village, 1985, collector E.I.Zholnerovskaya - 25 skulls.
IMAGES OF LIVING ANIMALS: pict.1

Marmota baibacina (Kastschenko, 1899)

Total : 835 specimens.
KAZAKHSTAN, Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya region, Markakolskyi district, Yuznyi Altai mountain ridge, upper reaches of the Aily river, 1987, collector V.K.Zinchenko - 111 skulls.
MONGOLIA, Sailyugem range, Sharnokhoit-Gol river, 1980, collector E.I.Zholnerovskaya - 1 skull.
RUSSIAN FEDERATION:
Altai Republic (mountain Altai):
Kosh-Agachskyi district, Chuiskaya steppe, 1932, 1933, 1958, 1960-1962; 1985, collector E.I.Zholnerovskaya - 8 skins with skull, 573 skulls, 21 skins.
Ust-Pristanskyi district, Krasnoyarka village, 1964 - 1 skull.
Novosibirskaya region:
Bolotninskyi district, 1953, Oyash village, 1966 - 1 skin with skull, 4 skulls, 2 skin.
Iskitimskyi district, Morozovo village, Koen river, Talmenka village, 1961-1964, 1966, 1967, 1972-1974 - 11 skins with skull, 31 skulls, 16 skeletons, 3 skins.
Maslyaninskyi district, 1963 - 3 skulls.
Mochkovskyi district, 1953, Mochkovo village, 1957, 1958, Skorokhodikha river, 1961, 1962 - 8 skins with skull, 8 skulls, 5 skins.
Toguchinskyi district, Otgonka village, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1976, 1977 - 2 skins with skull, 15 skulls, 2 skins.
Vicinity of the city of Novosibirsk, 1931, 1935, 1953, 1958, 1959 - 1 skin with skull, 1 skull, 4 skins.
Tomskaya region, vicinity of the city of Tomsk, Lyazgino village, 1950 - 1 skin with skull (HOLOTYPE of Marmota baibacina kastschenkoi Stroganov et Yudin, 1956 - N 6884).
Tuva, Mongun-Taiginskyi district, Island on the Lake Khindiktik-Khol, 1989, collector E.I.Zholnerovskaya - 2 skulls.

Marmota sibirica (Radde, 1862)

Total : 139 specimens.
MONGOLIA, Khangay range, 1976, 1977; Khenteiskyi aymak, somon Umnedelger, 1980, collector E.I.Zholnerovskaya - 31 skulls.
RUSSIAN FEDERATION:
Buryatia:
Kizhinginskyi district, Kizhinga village, 1973 - 3 skulls.
Ulan-Udenskyi district, Tarbagatay village, 1972 - 1 skull.
Chitinskaya region:
Borsinskyi district, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1935, 1945, 1956 - 46 skulls.
Krasnokamenskyi district, Dauria station, 1959 - 20 skulls.
Tuva:
Mongun-Tayginskyi district, 1947, Mugur-Aksy village, 1965, 1974, Mongun-Tayga village, 1976; 1989, collector E.I. Zholnerovskaya - 1 skin with skull, 36 skulls.
Tes-Chemskyi district, 1945 - 1 skull.

Marmota camtschatica (Pallas, 1811)

Total : 7 specimens.
RUSSIAN FEDERATION:
Buryatia, Baykalskyi range, Daval pass, 1975; Barguzinskyi reserve, upper reaches of the Urbikan river, 1990, collector E.I.Zholnerovskaya - 1 skin with skull, 4 skulls, 1 skin.
Kamtchatkaya region, Sredinnyi range, Yurtinnaya river, 1990, collector V.A.Tokarsky - 1 skull.

Marmota caudata (Geoffroy, 1844)

Total : 11 specimens.
TADJIKISTAN:
Gorno-Badachshanskaya region, Pamir, Chechekty village, 1972 - 6 skulls.
Leninabadskaya region, Gissarskii range, 1952, Anzob village, 1959 - 5 skulls.

Marmota menzbieri (Kashkarov, 1925)

Total : 2 specimens.
UZBEKISTAN, Tien Shan, Chatkalskyi range, 1991, collector E.I. Zholnerovskaya - 2 skin with skull, 1 skull.