Spermophilus xanthoprymnus (Bennett, 1835)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 1), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 345-382 : 371

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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: N.E. Turkey, Armenia, Erzerum (=Erzurum) .

DISTRIBUTION: Soviet Transcaucasia, Turkey, Syria, and Palestine.

COMMENT: Subgenus Spermophilus ; see Gromov et al., 1965:237. Regarded by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:506, and Corbet, 1978:83, as a synonym of citellus ; but see Gromov et al., 1965:237, and Vorontsov and Lyapunova, 1970, Byull. Mosk. Ova. Ispyt. Prir. Otd. Biol., 75: 122- 136, who provided evidence of specific distinctness.

References

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).

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).