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--> ORDER RODENTIA
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--> FAMILY Sciuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Xerinae
--> TRIBE Marmotini
--> GENUS Spermophilus
--> SUBGENUS see comments
SPECIES Spermophilus (see comments) brevicauda
| Author: | Brandt, 1843. | | Citation: | Bull. Acad. Sci., St. Petersbourg: 364. | | Common Name: | Brandt’s Ground Squirrel | | Type Locality: | "Habitat, ut videtur, in provincis Altaicis australiorbis versus lacum Balchasch" (Ognev, 1947:83). Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1966:508) however, cite "Zaisan basin", after Kuznetsov (1944). | | Distribution: | Zaisan depression south and westward along the Tien Shan mountains to the vicinity of Almaty, on both sides of the Kazakh-Chinese border (see Ma et al., 1987). | | Comments: | Subgenus Colobotis according to Gromov et al. (1965:315), but see Hall (1981:381) who included Colobotis in subgenus Spermophilus. See comments in erythrogenys, of which brevicauda was long considered a subspecies. A phylogeny based on molecular sequence data separates brevicauda from erythrogenys, pallidicauda, and alashanicus (Harrison et al., 2003). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
carruthersi (Thomas, 1912)
intermedius (Brandt, 1844)
ilensis (Belyaev, 1945)
saryarka (Selevin, 1937)
selevini (Argyropolu, 1941)
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