Spermophilus xanthoprymnus (Bennett, 1835)

Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 419-465 : 450

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scientific name	Spermophilus xanthoprymnus (Bennett, 1835)
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Spermophilus xanthoprymnus (Bennett, 1835) View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835:90.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Erzurum " [ Turkey].

DISTRIBUTION: Transcaucasia ( Armenia, possibly Azerbaidzhan), Turkey, Syria, and Israel.

SYNONYMS: schmidti (Satunin, 1908).

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.

References

Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.

Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.

Gromov, I. M., D. I. Bibikov, N. I. Kalabukhov, and M. N. N. Meier. 1965. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, tom. 3, vyp. 2 [Fauna of the U. S. S. R. Mammals. vol. 3, No. 2]. Nazemnye belich'e [Ground Squirrels]. Nauka, Moscow-Leningrad, 467 pp. (in Russian).

Vasil'eva, M. V. 1961. K voprosu o sistematicheskom polozhenii i rasprostranenii suslika evropeiskovo (Citellus citellus L.) and maloasiatskovo (Citellus xanthoprymnus Benn.) [Toward the question of the systematic position and distribution of the European ... and Near East ... ground squirrels]. Spornik Trudov Zoologicheskovo Muzeu MGU, 8: 253 - 260 (in Russian).

Vorontsov, N. N., and E. A. Lyapunova. 1970. Khromosomnye chisla i vidoobrazovanie u nazemnykh belich'ikh (Sciuridae: Xerinae et Marmotinae) Golarktiki [Chromosome number and species formation in ground squirrels ... of the Holarctic]. Byulleten' Moskovskovo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody, Otdel Biologicheskii, 75: 122 - 136 (in Russian).