Spermophilus fulvus (Lichtenstein 1823)
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Spermophilus fulvus (Lichtenstein 1823) View in CoL
[Arctomys] fulvus Lichtenstein 1823 , Naturh. Abh. Eversmann's Reise: 119.
Type Locality: "near the Kuvandzhur River, east of Mugodzhary Mountains, north of Aral Sea" [ Kazakhstan] ( Ognev, 1963 a:29) .
Vernacular Names: Yellow Ground Squirrel.
Subspecies: :
Subspecies Spermophilus fulvus subsp. fulvus Lichtenstein 1823
Subspecies Spermophilus fulvus subsp. hypoleucos Satunin 1909
Subspecies Spermophilus fulvus subsp. oxianus Thomas 1915
Distribution: Kazakhstan, from the Caspian Sea and the Volga River to Lake Balkash; south through Uzbekistan, W Tajikistan and Turkmenistan to NE Iran, and N Afghanistan; W Xinjiang ( China).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Subgenus Colobotis according to Gromov et al. (1965:276), but see Hall (1981:381) who included Colobotis in subgenus Spermophilus . See also major , which may be the sister species to fulvus ( Harrison et al., 2003) ; fulvus occurs sympatrically with major in the southern third of the latter’s range, where sporadic hybridization occurs south of Saratov ( Ermakov, 1996).
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