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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER SCIUROMORPHA
--> FAMILY Sciuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Xerinae
--> TRIBE Marmotini
--> GENUS Spermophilus
--> SUBGENUS Spermophilus
SPECIES Spermophilus (Spermophilus) suslicus
| Author: | Güldenstaedt, 1770. | | Citation: | Nova Comm. Acad. Sci. Petropoli, 14: 389. | | Common Name: | Speckled Ground Squirrel | | Type Locality: | "...in campis vastissimus tanaicensibus precipue urbes et Tambov" [Voronezh area, Voronezhsk. Obl., Russia]. | | Distribution: | Steppes of E and S Europe, including Poland, E Romania, Ukraine north to Oka River and east to the Volga River (Russia). | | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | Subgenus Spermophilus Gromov et al. (1965:212). Reviewed by Corbet (1978c) and Gromov and Erbajeva (1995), who listed only four subspecies. Hybridizes with major west of Kazan’ (Ermakov, 1996). See also comment under pygmaeus. |
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