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<emphasis id="EC97ED2A22B5E1760F94A81AD12F3323" italics="true" pageNumber="912">Myospalax psilurus</emphasis>
Milne-Edwards 1874
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,
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<emphasis id="11E4705F358A87AB186510FA73AB0F59" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="912">Type Locality:</emphasis>
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, Chihli (=
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), south of
<collectingRegion id="DDB1661FB47581FEEB0D46E413255FF5" country="China" name="Beijing">Beijing</collectingRegion>
.
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<emphasis id="4A129531A77D391BEB51C9FC35B3F5A9" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="912">Vernacular Names:</emphasis>
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North
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Zokor
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.
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<emphasis id="70E18794F1E8045F098148082E52464D" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="912">Synonyms:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="C38CD3AEB09604E9E9AB79A1030DB978" italics="true" pageNumber="912">Myospalax epsilanus</emphasis>
Thomas 1912
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;
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<emphasis id="F50A310DF667C569E17A4BC4DA7458BF" italics="true" pageNumber="912">Myospalax spilurus</emphasis>
(
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)
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.
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<paragraph id="DE6B33CAEA6F22E42DC071136A607E37" pageNumber="912">
<emphasis id="95FAF4E66CACD115EC3EB59A9E9A36BC" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="912">Distribution:</emphasis>
Agricultural fields and grasslands from NE and C
<collectingCountry id="E219F3F8037F19A3B73EAC95D9622CD2" name="China">China</collectingCountry>
(
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,
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,
<collectingRegion id="7896B1505B721F438700BAB6941B562F" country="China" name="Liaoning">Liaoning</collectingRegion>
,
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,
<collectingRegion id="C044F01CECC856EFEF47A81303935A87" country="China" name="Hebei">Hebei</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingRegion id="AB195F640148EA7944A20BF0ED5750D8" country="China" name="Beijing">Beijing</collectingRegion>
,
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,
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,
<collectingRegion id="A4466F31E2D32C657865E649E3E16BBB" country="China" name="Henan">Henan</collectingRegion>
, N
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,
<collectingRegion id="AC3BC28D2105425AF7CEB4252F484A10" country="China" name="Ningxia">Ningxia</collectingRegion>
, N
<collectingRegion id="E2CAAA0FBB078154092F0EB89E272AAE" country="China" name="Gansu">Gansu</collectingRegion>
, and
<collectingRegion id="8EC37400A154CECA9958E24CB7CE8064" country="China" name="Anhui">Anhui</collectingRegion>
; see
<bibRefCitation id="8245CE1C0EEB3368CB1E9CE39267D499" author="Zhang, Y. &amp; S. Jin &amp; G. Quan &amp; S. Li &amp; Z. Ye &amp; F. Wang &amp; M. Zhang" refId="ref405616" refString="Zhang, Y., S. Jin, G. Quan, S. Li, Z. Ye, F. Wang, and M. Zhang. 1997. Distribution of mammalian species in China. China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, 280 pp." year="1997">Zhang et al., 1997</bibRefCitation>
) to SE Mongolia (
<bibRefCitation id="4B520FB8324F331A1D4BD83F87808AD7" author="Sokolov, V. E. &amp; V. N. Orlov" refId="ref333657" refString="Sokolov, V. E., and V. N. Orlov. 1980. Opredelitel' mlekopitayushchickh Mongol'skoi Narodnoi Respubliki [Guide to the mammals of the Mongolian People's Republic]. Nauka, Moscow, 351 pp. (in Russian)." year="1980">Sokolov and Orlov, 1980</bibRefCitation>
), and adjacent parts of
<collectingCountry id="41EBAE90A324AEF88804455AE08CC6C4" name="Russia">Russia</collectingCountry>
in the
<collectingRegion id="2E32313AAB9A3BA9F5A85AB7837A9B77" country="Russia" name="Amur">Amur region</collectingRegion>
.
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<paragraph id="2CFF217F95234A817F0538A73C2D82B8" pageNumber="912">
<emphasis id="129A1F45DF0CA57BC4BB5388364D3052" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="912">Conservation:</emphasis>
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Lower Risk (nt) as
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<emphasis id="825A5E23EDAA3F9AF90D4202E5AD4195" italics="true" pageNumber="912">M. epsilanus</emphasis>
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, Lower Risk (lc) as
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<emphasis id="89840B108BB9B9C5B0CB6D4D256E1D32" italics="true" pageNumber="912">M. psilurus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="1549AB4FBD42C274AFBDAD82EF102AE2" pageNumber="912">
<emphasis id="31FE0D04AAF0FF605EE95AFECA9EC945" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="912">Discussion:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="4937D3E4F60C96D1EB34F632659FE7FC" italics="true" pageNumber="912">M. psilurus</emphasis>
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species group. Sole member of group, which is defined, except for rootless hypsodonty, by retention of the greatest number of primitive traits of any
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<emphasis id="B755A177B846B86C2835BC14EB84CD3B" italics="true" pageNumber="912">Myospalax</emphasis>
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studied by
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. The status of the taxon
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<emphasis id="EA7B0298E09F0D9A18135B63B7AED09A" italics="true" pageNumber="912">epsilanus</emphasis>
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(type locality, N Manchuria, Khingan Mtns,
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) has been variously interpreted. It was described as a species (
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Thomas, 1912
<emphasis id="69F117E0C982C517D0B7292B327094E5" italics="true" pageNumber="912">b</emphasis>
</bibRefCitation>
) but subsequently included in
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<emphasis id="9D2BE3B2DC391E8A1BEB5B8B53092AD7" italics="true" pageNumber="912">M. myospalax</emphasis>
(
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Corbet, 1978
<emphasis id="1C093D1EA28FC23B6313D2A6139FB299" italics="true" pageNumber="912">c</emphasis>
</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
or in
<taxonomicName id="22D5F8018F25716AC4C58AAB16A3E513" authorityName="Milne-Edwards" authorityYear="1874" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Myospalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="psilurus">
<emphasis id="321D61FB21D0BE7A1B6466BB02783319" italics="true" pageNumber="912">M. psilurus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="FEB7CD3543969E5930F6CC90111E764C" author="Ellerman, J. R." refId="ref92857" refString="Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp." year="1941">Ellerman, 1941</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="F60C9F32F7EE62ADB30DAC482AAC3021" author="Ellerman, J. R. &amp; T. C. S. Morrison-Scott" refId="ref93180" refString="Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp." year="1951">Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="69852FEA7F6C949B97954BD30A73C1F5" author="Gromov, I. M. &amp; M. A. Erbajeva" refId="ref130294" refString="Gromov, I. M., and M. A. Erbajeva. 1995. [The mammals of Russia and adjacent territories. Lagomorphs and Rodents.] Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institut, St. Petersburg, 520 pp." year="1995">Gromov and Erbajeva, 1995</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="B805EDF0753CE558F1F83B96390887B4" author="Ognev, S. I." refId="ref264461" refString="Ognev, S. I. 1947. Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran: Gryzuny (prodolzhenie). (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii) [Mammals of the USSR and adjacent countries: Rodents (continued). (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia)]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 5: 1 - 809 (in Russian)." year="1947">Ognev, 1947</bibRefCitation>
).
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recognized
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<emphasis id="E71145EFDC81F967D3EAC9AC81F8679F" italics="true" pageNumber="912">epsilanus</emphasis>
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as a separate species, the most primitive of the
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<emphasis id="4E78073C627043133AABC98437213531" italics="true" pageNumber="912">M. myospalax</emphasis>
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species group, which also includes Pliocene and Pleistocene fossil species. Her viewpoint has been incorporated into mammalian checklists (
<bibRefCitation id="538973537DDF715780C66D1B46356432" author="Musser, G. G. &amp; M. D. Carleton" refId="ref252333" refString="Musser, G. G., and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501 - 755, in: Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., xviii + 1206 pp." year="1993">Musser and Carleton, 1993</bibRefCitation>
;
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, but Ognev did not regard them as persuasive specific differences; furthermore, the characters used by
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to separate the two are qualitative in nature and may reflect individual or geographic variation. Until a more rigorous revision and documentation of geographic variation are provided to illuminate the significance of the contrasting features recorded by
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, we follow Ognevs arrangement. See account of
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<emphasis id="B7CA8A8F25A0EB9448601F526EEDBD96" italics="true" pageNumber="912">M. aspalax</emphasis>
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for chromosomal contrasts.
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