Who gave the groundhog the scientific name Mus monax in 1758?

Carl Linnaeus gave the groundhog the scientific name Mus monax in 1758.

Linnaeus introduced the name in the tenth edition of Systema Naturae, the landmark work that helped establish modern binomial nomenclature. At the time, he placed the animal in Mus, the mouse genus. Later taxonomic work transferred the species to Marmota, producing the accepted name Marmota monax.

The 1758 name was based on an earlier description by the English naturalist George Edwards, published in 1743. That detail explains a frequent source of confusion: Edwards contributed the descriptive material, but Linnaeus formally supplied the scientific name used in the original classification.

The parentheses around Linnaeus in the modern authority, “Marmota monax (Linnaeus, 1758),” indicate that the species has moved to a different genus since it was first named. Johann Erxleben later described a subspecies, while Charles Darwin had no role in naming the groundhog.