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--> GENUS Spermophilus
--> SUBGENUS Spermophilus
SPECIES Spermophilus (Spermophilus) citellus
Author: | Linnaeus, 1766. | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1: 80. | Common Name: | European Ground Squirrel | Type Locality: | "Austria"; restricted by Martino and Martino (1940) to "Wagram, Niederosterrich" (Bauer, 1960:254). | Distribution: | SE Germany, Czech Republic, SW Poland through SE Europe to European Turkey, Moldovia and W Ukraine. | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | Comments: | Subgenus Spermophilus. Formerly included dauricus and xanthoprymnus as in Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:506); but see Gromov et al. (1965:208, 237), Vorontsov and Lyapunova (1970), and Orlov and Davaa (1975). Cytogenetics described by Belcheva and Peshev (1985) and Soldatovic et al. (1984); xanthoprymnus is now considered to be more closely aligned with suslicus and dauricus (Harrison et al., 2003). |
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