🐿️Alpine marmot
La marmota alpina (Marmota marmota) es una especie de roedor esciuromorfo de la familia Sciuridae. Es el roedor más grande de Eurasia y una de las dos especies de marmotas que se encuentran en este continente. Está emparentada con las ardillas, con las que comparten familia, pero su aspecto y costumbres difiere enormemente de las de estas. Está difundida por los montes Tatras, Alpes, Macizo Central y Pirineos (donde fue reintroducida en 1948), entre los 800 y los 3200 metros de altitud. Aunque ésta es la especie que comúnmente se conoce como marmota, existen al menos 14 especies más, difundidas por las zonas montañosas del hemisferio norte clasificadas dentro del género Marmota y que incluyen esta palabra en su nombre común.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.
- Body mass
- 3.5 kg
- Body length
- 0.6 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 18 years
Everything we know about the Alpine marmot
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass3.5 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 3.5 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.6 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass15 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan18 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 17 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length6.86 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity2.3 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation35 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 35 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 4COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 4AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range0.01 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density584 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l3.5 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Alpine marmot yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderRodentia
- ›familySciuridae
- ›genusMarmota
- ›speciesMarmota marmota
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- tribeMarmotini
- genusMarmota
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- suborderSciuromorpha
- familySciuridae
- tribeMarmotini
- genusMarmota
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