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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
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--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Arvicolinae
--> GENUS Blanfordimys
SPECIES Blanfordimys afghanus
| Author: | Thomas, 1912. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 9: 349. | | Common Name: | Afghan Vole | | Type Locality: | Afghanistan, Badkhiz, Gulran. | | Distribution: | High steppes and semi-desert in S Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and C Afghanistan; isolated population in Great Balkhan Mtns on E coast of Caspian Sea. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Taxonomy and distribution of Afghanistan populations reported by Niethammer (1970) and Hassinger (1973), karyotype (2n = 58, FN = 60 or 61) documented by Lyapunova and Zagorodnyuk (1990), and morphometric and karyological analyses provided by Golenishchev and Sablina (1991), who recognized three subspecies. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
afganensis Agadzhanyan and Yatsenko, 1984
balchanensis (Heptner and Shukurov, 1950)
dangarinensis Golenishchev and Sablina, 1991
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