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--> GENUS Spermophilus
--> SUBGENUS Spermophilus
SPECIES Spermophilus (Spermophilus) musicus
Author: | Ménétries, 1832. | Citation: | Cat. Raisonne des Objets de Zoologie, St. Petersbourg: 21. | Common Name: | Caucasian Mountain Ground Squirrel | Type Locality: | "Il habite le Caucase sur les montagnes le plus élevées et pas loin des nieges éternalles." Restricted by Sviridenko (1927, see Ognev, 1963a:114) to "Ush-Kulan [Georgia]". | Distribution: | N Caucasus Mtns (Georgia). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Subgenus Spermophilus (Gromov et al., 1965:249). Regarded by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:508) and Corbet (1978c:83) as a subspecies of pygmaeus. Gromov et al. (1965:249) and Vorontsov and Lyapunova (1970) provided evidence of specific distinctness. Molecular sequence data place it close to pygmaeus (Harrison et al., 2003). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
boehmii (Krassovskii, 1932) magisteri (Heptner, 1948) saturatus (Ognev, 1947) typicus (Satunin, 1908)
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