Order Rodentia (Part 1) Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 345 382 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353023 dad61072-6081-4192-9e01-c996e8d6528f 0-89327-235-3 7353023 Spermophilus dauricus Brandt, 1843 . Bull. Phys. Math. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb., 2:379 . TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R ., R .S.F.S. R ., Chitinsk. Obi., Torei-Nor (Lake) . DISTRIBUTION: Transbaikalia ( U.S. S. R.); Mongolia ; N. China . COMMENT: Subgenus Spermophilus ; see Gromov et al., 1965:244 . Corbet, 1978:83, tentatively included alashanicus in this species, but see Orlov and Davaa, 1975 , pp. 8-9, in [Systematics and cytogenetics of mammals], Orlov, ed., "Nauka," Moscow, who provided evidence of specific distinctness. See comment under alashanicus . Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:506 , included dauricus in citellus ; but see Gromov et al., 1965:244 , who considered dauricus a distinct species.