Spermophilus pygmaeus
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Robert S.
name: Anderson, Charles G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Sciuridae
Spermophilus
Spermophilus pygmaeus

description: <i>Spermophilus pygmaeus</i> (Pallas, 1778). Nova Spec. Quad. Glir. Ord., p. 122. TYPE LOCALITY: "Maximos et paene dixerim monstrosos Citillós passim ad inferiorum laikum in campis squalidis." Restricted by Ognev (1963a: 102) to "lower reaches of the Ural River" "Indersk" [Kazakhstan]. DISTRIBUTION: SW Ukraine; S Ural Mtns to Crimea (Russia); Kazakhstan; NW Uzbekistan; Dagestan (Georgia). SYNONYMS: <i>atricapilla</i> (Orlov, 1927); <i>binominatus</i> (Ellerman, 1940); <i>brauneri</i> (Martino, 1914); <i>ellermani</i> (Harris, 1944); <i>flavescens</i> (Pallas, 1779); <i>herbicola</i> (Martino, 1914); <i>kalabuchovi</i> (Ognev, 1937); <i>kazakstanicus</i> (Goodwin, 1935); <i>mugosaricus</i> (Lichtenstein, 1823); <i>nikolskii</i> (Heptner, 1934); <i>orlovi</i> (Ellerman, 1940); <i>pallidus</i> (Orlov and Fenyuk, 1927); <i>planicola</i> (Satunin, 1909); <i>satunini</i> (Sveridenko, 1922); <i>septentrionalis</i> (Obolenskii, 1927). COMMENTS: Subgenus <i>Spermophilus,</i> see Gromov et al. (1965:257) and comment under <i>musicus.</i> Hybridizes rarely with <i>erythrogenys, fulvus,</i> and <i>major</i> (Bazhanov 1944; Denisov, 1964); hybridizes extensively with <i>suslicus</i> in zone of contact SW of Saratov (Russia) (Denisov and Smirnova, 1976).
description: Published as part of <i>Robert S. Hoffmann &amp; Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 419-465 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 448, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130
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