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--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER SCIUROMORPHA
--> FAMILY Sciuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Xerinae
--> TRIBE Marmotini
--> GENUS Spermophilus
--> SUBGENUS Spermophilus
SPECIES Spermophilus (Spermophilus) xanthoprymnus
Author: | Bennett, 1835. | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835: 90. | Common Name: | Asia Minor Ground Squirrel | Type Locality: | "Erzurum" [Turkey]. | Distribution: | Transcaucasia (Armenia, possibly Azerbaijan), Turkey, Syria, and Israel. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Subgenus Spermophilus (Gromov et al. 1965:237). Regarded by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:506) and Corbet (1978c:83) as a synonym of citellus; but see Vasil'eva (1961), Gromov et al. (1965:237), and Vorontsov and Lyapunova (1970), who provided evidence of specific distinctness. Molecular sequence data suggest that this species may form a clade together with dauricus and suslicus (Harrison et al., 2003). Karyotypes analyzed by Doğramaci et al. (1994a). |
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