Spermophilus (Spermophilus) musicus Ménétries 1832
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Spermophilus (Spermophilus) musicus Ménétries 1832 View in CoL
Spermophilus (Spermophilus) musicus Ménétries 1832 View in CoL , Cat. Raisonne des Objets de Zoologie, St. Petersbourg: 21.
Type Locality: "Il habite le Caucase sur les montagnes le plus élevées et pas loin des nieges éternalles." Restricted by Sviridenko (1927, see Ognev, 1963 a:114) to "Ush-Kulan [ Georgia]" .
Vernacular Names: Caucasian Mountain Ground Squirrel.
Synonyms: Spermophilus (Spermophilus) boehmii (Krassovskii 1932) ; Spermophilus (Spermophilus) magisteri (Heptner 1948) ; Spermophilus (Spermophilus) saturatus ( Ognev 1947) ; Spermophilus (Spermophilus) typicus (Satunin 1908) .
Distribution: N Caucasus Mtns ( Georgia).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Subgenus Spermophilus ( Gromov et al., 1965:249) . Regarded by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:508) and Corbet (1978 c:83) as a subspecies of pygmaeus . Gromov et al. (1965:249) and Vorontsov and Lyapunova (1970) provided evidence of specific distinctness. Molecular sequence data place it close to pygmaeus ( Harrison et al., 2003) .
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