Sicista Gray 1827

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Type Species: Mus subtilis Pallas 1773

Synonyms: Clonomys Thilesius 1850 ; Sminthus Nordmann 1840 .

Species and subspecies: 13 species:

Species Sicista armenica Sokolov and Baskevich 1988

Species Sicista betulina (Pallas 1779)

Species Sicista caucasica Vinogradov 1925

Species Sicista caudata Thomas 1907

Species Sicista concolor Büchner 1892

Species Sicista kazbegica Sokolov, Baskevich, and Kovalskaya 1986

Species Sicista kluchorica Sokolov, Kovalskaya, and Baskevich 1980

Species Sicista napaea Hollister 1912

Species Sicista pseudonapaea Strautman 1949

Species Sicista severtzovi Ognev 1935

Species Sicista strandi Formozov 1931

Species Sicista subtilis (Pallas 1773)

Species Sicista tianshanica Salensky 1903

Discussion: Reviewed by Ognev (1963 b). Karyological research and systematic problems in the genus reviewed by Sokolov et al. (1987 b). Several species in the S. concolor complex ( S. armenica , S. caucasica , S. caudata , S. kazbegica , S. kluchorica , S. tianshanica ) have been distinguished by Sokolov and colleagues primarily by karyotypic and spermatozoal differences ( Baskevich, 1996 a, provides the most current summary of the morphological, chromosomal, and spermatozoal traits used to distinguish these species). All these species are provisionally recognized here, but need further documentation and corroborative data sets to firmly establish their specific status. Diagnoses, characteristics, distribution, geographical variation, ecology, and economic importance of species in Russia and adjacent regions extensively reviewed by Shenbrot et al. (1995). Myology, in context of adaptive and phylogenetic significance, studied by Klingener (1964) and Stein (1990). Comparative myology of pelvic girdle studied by Fokin (1971). European late Pliocene and Pleistocene records of Sicista reviewed by Kowalski (2001). For synonyms see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951).

References

Baskevich, M. I. 1996 a. On morphologically similar species in the genus Sicista (Rodentia, Dipodoidea). Bonner Zoologische Beitrage, 46 (1 - 4): 133 - 140.

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.

Fokin, I. M. 1971. [Comparative anatomy of the muscles of the pelvic appendage of the genera Sicista and Salpingotus (on the position of the subfamily Cardiocraniinae in the system of the Dipodidae)]. Trudy Zoologicheskovo Instituta, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Leningrad, 48: 181 - 197 (in Russian).

[Gray, J. E.]. 1827. Synopsis of the species of the Class Mammalia, as arranged with reference to their organization, by Cuvier, and other naturalists, with specific characters, synonyma, & c. & c., vol. 5, in The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier, with additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed. (E. Griffith, C. H. Smith, and E. Pidgeon, eds.). G. B. Whittaker, London, 391 pp.

Hollister, N. 1912. The names of the Rocky Mountain goat. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 25: 185 - 186.

Klingener, D. 1964. The comparative myology of four dipodoid rodents (genera Zapus, Napaeozapus, Sicista, and Jaculus). Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 124: 1 - 100.

Kowalski, K. 2001. Pleistocene rodents of Europe. Folia Quaternaria, 72: 3 - 389.

Ognev, S. I. 1935. Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran. Khishchnyei i lastonogie (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii) [Mammals of the USSR and adjacent countries: Carnivora and Pinnipedia (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia)]. Glavpushnina NKVT, Moscow, 3: 1 - 752 (in Russian).

Ognev, S. I. 1963 b. Mammals of the USSR and adjacent countries: Rodents (continued). (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia) [A translation of S. I. Ognev, 1948, Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran: Gryzuny (prodolzhenie). (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii)]. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 6: 1 - 508.

Shenbrot, G. I., V. E. Sokolov, V. G. Heptner, and Yu. M. Koval'skaya. 1995. [Mammals of the fauna of Russia and contiguous countries. Dipodoid rodents.] Nauka Publishers, Moscow, 576 pp. (in Russian).

Sokolov, V. E., Y. M. Kovalskaya, and M. I. Baskevich. 1980. Gryzuny [Rodents]. Materiali Pyatovo Vsesoyuznovo Soveshchaniye, Moscow, 1980: 38 - 40 (in Russian).

Sokolov, V. E., and M. I. Baskevich. 1988. [A new species of birch mouse- - Sicista armenica sp. n. (Rodentia, Dipodoidea) from the Lesser Caucasus.] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 67 (2): 300 - 304 (in Russian).

Stein, B. R. 1990. Limb myology and phylogenetic relationships in the superfamily Dipodoidea (birch mice, jumping mice, and jerboas). Zeitschrift fur Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung, 28: 299 - 314.

Vinogradov, B. S. 1925. On the structure of the external genitalia in Dipodidae and Zapodidae (Rodentia) as a classificatory character. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1925 (1): 572 - 585.