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

description: <i>Spermophilus citellus</i> (Linnaeus, 1766). Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1:80. TYPE LOCALITY: " Austria "; restricted by Martino and Martino (1940) to "Wagram, Niederosterrich" (Bauer, 1960:254). DISTRIBUTION: SE Germany, Czechoslovakia, SW Poland through SE Europe to European Turkey, Moldova and W Ukraine. SYNONYMS: <i>balcanicus</i> (Markov, 1957); <i>citillus</i> (Pallas, 1779); <i>gradojevici</i> (Martino, 1929); <i>istricus</i> (Calinescu, 1934); <i>karamani</i> (Martino, 1940); <i>laskarevi</i> (Martino, 1940); <i>macedonicus</i> Fraguedakis-Tsolis and Ondrias, 1977; <i>martinoi</i> (Peshchev, 1955); <i>thracius</i> (Mursaloglu, 1964). COMMENTS: Subgenus <i>Spermophilus.</i> Formerly included <i>dauricus</i> and <i>xanthoprymnus</i> as in Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:506); but see Gromov et al. (1965:208, 237), Vorontsov and Lyapunova (1970), and Orlov and Davaa (1975). Cytogenetics described by Belcheva and Peshev (1985) and Soldatovic et al. (1984).
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 445, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130
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