| Author: | Pallas, 1778. |
| Citation: | Nova Spec. Quad. Glir. Ord.: 122. |
| Common Name: | Little Ground Squirrel |
| Type Locality: | "Maximos et paene dixerim monstrosos Citillós passim ad inferiorum laikum in campis squalidis." Restricted by Ognev (1963a:102) to "lower reaches of the Ural River" "Indersk [Kazakhstan]". |
| Distribution: | SW Ukraine; S Ural Mtns to Crimea (Russia); Kazakhstan; NW Uzbekistan; Dagestan (Georgia). |
| Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). |
| Comments: | Subgenus Spermophilus, see Gromov et al. (1965:257) and comment under musicus. Hybridizes rarely with erythrogenys and fulvus, and more frequently with major and suslicus (Bazhanov 1944; Denisov, 1964); in zone of contact SW of Saratov (Russia) (Denisov and Smirnova, 1976; Ermakov, 1996). |
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