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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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Synonyms:

    carruthersi (Thomas, 1912)
    intermedius (Brandt, 1844)
    ilensis (Belyaev, 1945)
    saryarka (Selevin, 1937)
    selevini (Argyropolu, 1941)

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