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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Arvicolinae
--> GENUS Ellobius
--> SUBGENUS Afganomys
SPECIES Ellobius (Afganomys) fuscocapillus
| Author: | Blyth, 1843. | | Citation: | J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 11: 887. | | Common Name: | Southern Mole Vole | | Type Locality: | Pakistan, Baluchistan Region, Quetta Div., Quetta. | | Distribution: | E Iran, Afghanistan, W Pakistan, and S Turkmenistan in the Kopet Dag Mtns; outlying population in E Turkmenistan, 500 km northeast of the central range (Marochkina, 1996). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Afganomys. Chromosomal data presented by Vorontsov et al. (1980) and Lyapunova et al. (1980); in contrast to E. lutescens and E. tancrei, E. fuscocapillus has the standard mammalian XX/XY sex chromosomes (Just et al., 1995). Ellobius fuscocapillus does not occur today in the S Levant (Israel), but fossils document its former presence during Pleistocene intervals, about 220,000-110,000 and 80,000-60,000 years ago (see Tchernov, 1992, 1994, and references therein). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
farsistani Ugarov, 1928
intermedius Scully, 1887
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