Spermophilus erythrogenys Brandt, 1841

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 : 446

Spermophilus erythrogenys Brandt, 1841 . Bull. Acad. Sei. St. Petersbourg, p. 43.

TYPE LOCALITY: "...vicinity of Barnaul" [Altaisk Krai, Russia] ( Ognev, 1963a:60) .

DISTRIBUTION: E Kazakhstan, SW Siberia ( Russia), Xinjiang ( China). Isolated population (pallidicaudus) in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia ( China).

SYNONYMS: brevicauda Brandt, 1843; brunnescens (Beljaev, 1943); carruthersi (Thomas, 1912) ; iliensis (Beljaev, 1943); intermedius Brandt, 1843; pallidicauda (Satunin, 1903); saryarka Selevin, 1937; selevini (Vinogradov and Argyropulo, 1941).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Colobotis according to Gromov et al. (1965:315), but see Hall (1981:381) who included Colobotis in subgenus Spermophilus . Includes brevicauda (= intermedius), carruthersi , and pallidicauda; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:508, 511) regarded brevicauda, intermedius and carruthersi as synonyms of pygmaeus , and pallidicauda as a full species. Sludskii et al. (1969) considered intermedius (= brevicauda) a full species. Provisionally included in major by Corbet (1978c:84); but see Gromov et al. (1965:315), Vorontsov and Lyapunova (1970), and Nikol'skii (1984) for evidence of specific distinctness. See also major .