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--> FAMILY Calomyscidae
--> GENUS Calomyscus
SPECIES Calomyscus hotsoni
Author: | Thomas, 1920. | Citation: | J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 26: 938. | Common Name: | Hotson’s Calomyscus | Type Locality: | SW Pakistan, W Balochistan, Makran Dist., Gwambuk Kaul, 50 km SW Panjgur (26º 30'N, 63º 50'E). | Distribution: | Recorded from vicinity of type locality and Baluchistan Prov. of SE Iran (specimens in USNM); range extent unresolved. | Status: | IUCN – Endangered. | Comments: | A smaller-bodied Calomyscus (Vorontsov et al., 1979) that was described as a species but later arranged as a subspecies of C. bailwardi, including mystax as a synonym (Corbet, 1978c; Ellerman, 1941, 1961; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951). Based on size, C. hotsoni is allied with C. mystax and C. elburzensis of S Turkmenistan, NW Afghanistan, and NE Iraq, not with the larger-bodied C. baluchi that occurs to the north in W Pakistan. Affinities of C. hotsoni uncertain and karyotype undocumented. |
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