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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER MYOMORPHA
--> SUPERFAMILY Muroidea
--> FAMILY Cricetidae
--> SUBFAMILY Arvicolinae
--> GENUS Eolagurus
SPECIES Eolagurus przewalskii
| Author: | Büchner, 1889. | | Citation: | Wiss. Res. Przewalski Cent.-Asien, Reisen, Zool., I: (Säugeth.): 127. | | Common Name: | Przewalski’s Steppe Lemming | | Type Locality: | China, Qinghai, Tsaidam region, shore of Iche-zaidemin Nor. | | Distribution: | Montane meadows and river banks, from S Xinjiang and N Xizang, W China, east through Quinghai and N Gansu to W and S Mongolia and Nei Mongol; limits unknown. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | A distinctive species united with E. luteus by Corbet (1978c) but treated as separate by most systematists (G. M. Allen, 1940; Corbet and Hill, 1991; Musser and Carleton, 1993; Pavlinov et al., 1995a). Gromov and Polyakov’s (1977) redescription of E. przewalskii and illustrations of crania and dentitions unequivocally discriminate the two, whose ranges overlap in the lakes region of W Mongolia. |
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