Nahuatl for marmot?

[Jim Rader]

 > I'm assuming, given the wide range of territories that have been
 > occupied by speakers of Nahuatl, that there is a word for marmot.
 >
 > Would anyone happen to know what that is?
 >
 > I'm less sure that there are or were marmots around the Valley of Mexico
 > or on the slopes of the volcanoes. Might anyone have any idea?
 >

According to the usually authoritative _Walker's Mammals of the
World_, none of the 14 species of marmot, which include the
woodchuck or groundhog (Marmota monax) of the U.S., are found
in either the southwestern U.S. or Mexico. So it seems pretty
unlikely there was a Nahuatl word for them.
Jim Rader