Spermophilus musicus Menetries, 1832

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 : 369

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Spermophilus musicus Menetries, 1832 View in CoL . Cat. Raisonne Mus. Peale Phila., p. 21.

TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Gruzinsk. S.S. R., Uchkulan ("Caucasus”) .

DISTRIBUTION: N. Caucasus Mtns. ( U.S. S. R.).

COMMENT: Subgenus Spermophilus ; see Gromov et al., 1965:249. Regarded by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:508, and Corbet, 1978:83, as a subspecies of pygmaeus . Gromov et al., 1965:249, and Vorontsov and Lyapunova, 1970, Byull. Mosk. Ova. Ispyt. Prir. Otd. Biol., 75: 122-136, and 1976, pp. 337-353, in Beringia in Cenozoic, V. Kontrimavichus, ed., Acad. Sci., Vladivostok, provided evidence of specific distinctness.