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

description: <i>Spermophilus major</i> (Pallas, 1778). Nova Spec. Quad. Glir. Ord., p. 125. TYPE LOCALITY: "Steppe near Samara," [Kuibyshev, Kuibyshevsk. Obi., Russia] (Ognev, 1963a:34). DISTRIBUTION: Steppe between Volga and Irtysh rivers (Russia; N Kazakhstan). Formerly, steppe between Don and Volga rivers (Russia; Gromov et al., 1965:291). SYNONYMS: <i>argyropuloi</i> (Bazhanov, 1947); <i>heptneri</i> (Vasil'eva, 1964); <i>rufescens</i> (Keyserling and Blasius, 1840); <i>ungae</i> (Martino, 1923). COMMENTS: Subgenus <i>Colobotis</i> according to Gromov et al. (1965:290), but see Hall (1981:381) who included <i>Colobotis</i> in subgenus <i>Spermophilus.</i> Occasionally hybridizes with <i>erythrogenys and fulvus</i> (Denisov, 1963; Ognev, 1947). Corbet (1978c:84) provisionally included <i>erythrogenys</i> and <i>brevicauda</i> in this species, but Gromov et al. (1965:290) and Vorontsov and Lyapunova (1970) considered <i>erythrogenys</i> a distinct species, and Gromov et al. (1965:315) included <i>brevicauda</i> in <i>erythrogenys;</i> see comment under <i>erythrogenys.</i>
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 447, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130
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