Sicista tianshanica Salensky 1903

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 871-893 : 890

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Sicista tianshanica Salensky 1903 View in CoL , Ezheg. Zool. Muz. Akad. Nauk, 8: 17.

Type Locality: China, Xinjiang, S slope Tien Shan Mtns, between Kapchagay (Chapzagai-gol) and Tsaima (Zanma) Rivers.

Vernacular Names: Tien Shan Birch Mouse.

Distribution: Tien Shan Mtns of Kazakhstan (see Sludskii, 1977); Tien Shan Mtns and E Tarbagatay Mtns of Xinjiang, China (see Ma et al., 1987; Wang, 2003); see overall distribution map in Shenbrot et al. (1995).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Sokolov et al. (1982, 1987 b) and Sokolov and Kovalskaya (1990) gave karyological and spermatozoal characters that distinguish this species from S. caudata , and from S. concolor (Sokolov et al., 1980) . See also comment under Sicista . Listed by Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1998) and reviewed by Gromov and Erbajeva (1995) and Shenbrot et al. (1995).

References

Gromov, I. M., and M. A. Erbajeva. 1995. [The mammals of Russia and adjacent territories. Lagomorphs and Rodents.] Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institut, St. Petersburg, 520 pp.

Ma Yong, Wang Feng-gui, Jin Shan-ke, and Li Si-hua. 1987. [Glires (rodents and lagomorphs) of Northern Xinjiang and their zoogeographical distribution.] Science Press, Academia Sinica, Beijing, 274 pp. (in Chinese).

Pavlinov, I. Ya., and O. L. Rossolimo. 1998. [Systematics of mammals of the USSR. Addenda. M.] Archives of the Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, 38: 190 pp. (in Russian).

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).

Sludskii, A. A. (ed.). 1977. Mlekopitayushchie Kazakhstana. Gryzuny (krome surkov, suslikov, zemlyanoi belki, peschanok i polevok) [Mammals of Kazakhstan. Rodents (except marmots, susliks, long clawed ground squirrels, gerbils and voles)]. Nauka, Kazakhskoi SSR, Alma-Ata, 1 (2): 1 - 536 (in Russian).

Sokolov, V. E., Y. M. Kovalskaya, and M. I. Baskevich. 1982. [Taxonomy and comparative cytogenetics of some species of the genus Sicista (Rodentia, Dipodidae)]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 61 (1): 102 - 108 (in Russian).

Sokolov, V. E., and Y. M. Kovalskaya. 1990. Kariotipy myshovok severnovo Tyan' - Shanya i Sikhote-Alinya (Sicista, Dipodoidea, Rodentia) [Karyotypes of birch mice (Sicista, Dipodoidea, Rodentia) in the northern Tien-Shan and Sikhote-Alin]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 69 (5): 152 - 157 (in Russian).

Wang, Y. 2003. A complete checklist of mammal species and subspecies in China. A taxonomic and geographic reference. China Forestry Publishing House, (Beijing), 394 pp.