Spermophilus citellus (Linnaeus, 1766) . Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1:80.

TYPE LOCALITY: Austria .

DISTRIBUTION: S. E. Germany and S. W. Poland to European Turkey, Rumania, and Ukraine (U.S. S. R.).

COMMENT: Subgenus Spermophilus; see Gromov et al., 1965:232. Formerly included dauricus and xanthoprymnus as in Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:506; but see Orlov and Davaa, 1975, pp. 8-9, in [Systematics and cytogenetics of mammals], Orlov, ed., "Nauka," Moscow, Gromov et al., 1965:208, 237, and Vorontsov and Lyapunova, 1970, Byull. Mosk. Ova. Ispyt. Prir., Otd. Biol., 75: 122-136.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410002032008001.