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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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Synonyms:

    boehmii (Krassovskii, 1932)
    magisteri (Heptner, 1948)
    saturatus (Ognev, 1947)
    typicus (Satunin, 1908)

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