Marmota
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Summary
Marmota is a taxon[1]. Marmota ranks in the top 0.14% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (21,493 views/month, #275 of 195,241).[2]
Key Facts
- Taxon rank: genus[3]
- Parent taxon: ground squirrels[4]
- Taxon name: Marmota[5]
- Commons category: Marmota[6]
- Topic's main category: Category:Marmots[7], Category:Marmota[8]
- Commons gallery: Marmota[9]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 2[12], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13]
- Taxon synonym: Arctomys[14]
- This taxon is source of: marmot oil[15]
- Taxon common name: svišť[16], Murmeltiereu[17], Marmot[18], Marmoto[19], Murmeli[20], Marmotte[21], Marmotta[22], Švilpikai[23], Marmotten[24], Murmeldyr[25], Świstak[26], Сурок[27], Murmeldjur[28], svizec[29]
- Different from: marmoset[30]
- Gait: half-bound[31]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[32]
- Diel cycle: diurnality[33]
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Identifiers
Marmota's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 46078[34]. Marmota's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9992[35]. Marmota's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 34620[36]. Marmota's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2437364[37]. Marmota's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180136[38].
Discovery and Description
Things named for Marmota include Groundhog Day[39], a holiday[40], in United States[41] and Apache Marmotta[42], a triplestore[43], founded in 2013[44].
Why It Matters
Marmota has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[45] Marmota is known by 64 alternative names across languages and contexts.[46]
Entities named for Marmota include Groundhog Day[39], a holiday[40], in United States[41] and Apache Marmotta[42], a triplestore[43], founded in 2013[44].