Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae
Author
Robert S. Hoffmann
Author
Charles G. Anderson
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
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Spermophilus parryii
(Richardson, 1825)
.
In
Parry, Voy. discovery
Northwest
Passage, Vol. 6- app. second voy., p. 316
.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Restricted by
Preble (1902:46)
to "Five Hawser Bay, Lyon Inlet, Melville Peninsula, [Hudson Bay, Keewatin District,
Northwest Territories
],
Canada
."
DISTRIBUTION: NW
Canada
;
Alaska
(
USA
); NE Yakutia, Anadyrsk. Krai, and
Chukotka
(
Russia
).
SYNONYMS:
ablusus
(Osgood, 1903);
barrowensis
Merriam, 1900;
beringensis
Merriam, 1900;
buxtoni
(J. Allen, 1903);
coriacorum
(Portenko, 1963);
janensis (Ognev,
1937);
kennicottii
(Ross, 1861);
kodiacensis J.
Allen, 1874;
leucostictus
Brandt, 1844
;
lyratus
(
Hall and Gilmore, 1932
);
nebulicola
(Osgood, 1903);
osgoodi
Merriam, 1900;
phaeognatha
(Richardson, 1829);
plesius
Osgood, 1900
;
stejnegeri
(J. Allen, 1903);
stonei
(J. Allen, 1903);
tschuktschorum
Chernyavskii, 1972
.
COMMENTS: Subgenus
Urocitellus
according to
Gromov et al. (1965: 184)
, but see
Hall (1981:381)
who included
Urocitellus
in subgenus
Spermophilus
.
Regarded by
Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:511)
and
Hall and Kelson (1959:343)
as a synonym of
undulatus
.
Gromov et al. (1965: 184)
and
Nadler et al. (1974)
provided evidence of specific distinctness. Reviewed by
Chernyavskii (1972)
, Nadler and
Hoffmann (1977)
,
Serdyuk (1979)
(Palearctic), and
Pearson (1981)
(Nearctic).
Nikol'skii and Wallschläger (1982)
noted differences in alarm calls between Siberian and Alaskan populations.