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<emphasis id="1E25D6A51B07BF220B42124E968E63BF" italics="true" pageNumber="808">Spermophilus major</emphasis>
(Pallas 1778)
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<taxonomicName id="0AB88CB8086C30177D2AF339EAD9835E" authority="Pallas 1778" authorityName="Pallas" authorityYear="1778" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Mus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="808" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="major">
<emphasis id="31EE3CA4C96268BE008F6DD66EE1ED21" italics="true" pageNumber="808">[Mus] major</emphasis>
Pallas 1778
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,
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Quad. Glir. Ord.: 125
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.
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<paragraph id="EEFAA0934D7399C5355C766837CCB375" pageNumber="808">
<emphasis id="26277A6AC170C968715A40DF4957348F" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="808">Type Locality:</emphasis>
<materialsCitation id="772215EC34D82D5955A89C011DFE30D6" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="4867319498" country="Russia" pageNumber="808" stateProvince="Samara">
&quot;Steppe near
<collectingRegion id="FA98DFC3002DE590906B115A9E2D545D" country="Russia" name="Samara">Samara</collectingRegion>
,&quot; [Kuibyshev, Kuibyshevsk. Obl.,
<collectingCountry id="EB3B2895F3147F3EFF2500CD73AEC34C" name="Russia">Russia</collectingCountry>
] (
<bibRefCitation id="48E99ABE67D4B3453DED4CF0209B3B32" author="Ognev, S. I." refId="ref264850" refString="Ognev, S. I. 1963 a. Mammals of the USSR and adjacent countries: Rodents (continued). (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia) [A translation of S. I. Ognev, 1947, Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran: Gryzuny (prodolzhenie). (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii)]. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 5: 1 - 662." year="1963">
Ognev, 1963
<emphasis id="2923E562A3C397527673F5ED5DE69852" italics="true" pageNumber="808">a</emphasis>
:34
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)
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="DC511FE8F15688933AB9C9B7529EC021" pageNumber="808">
<emphasis id="803C66BF79B54EFC727AEB8D4832CAD9" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="808">Vernacular Names:</emphasis>
<vernacularName id="41CB65D4CD86B43A67C086827F98ED3E" language="eng" pageNumber="808">Russet Ground Squirrel</vernacularName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph id="2D49CA788FBB885466938371F68D8039" pageNumber="808">
<emphasis id="08EF8D7597ACF54A937A1311A722BB9D" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="808">Synonyms:</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="927D2667E98467A539FF94935E76299F" authority="(Bazhanov 1947)" baseAuthorityName="Bazhanov" baseAuthorityYear="1947" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Spermophilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="808" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="argyropuloi">
<emphasis id="A1CF088A59C4C0BAD581C501DD48BED6" italics="true" pageNumber="808">Spermophilus argyropuloi</emphasis>
(Bazhanov 1947)
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="62ABCFE5E7CEB178F4CF4567AEBDBDC3" authority="(Keyserling and Blasius 1840)" baseAuthorityName="Keyserling and Blasius" baseAuthorityYear="1840" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Spermophilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="808" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rufescens">
<emphasis id="65AA2C531DEF9421872D7CA9705EB83F" italics="true" pageNumber="808">Spermophilus rufescens</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="21DFBB6CB6BE5E3B6D8328E5E252D3F7" author="Keyserling, A. &amp; J. H. Blasius" refId="ref183563" refString="Keyserling, A., and J. H. Blasius. 1840. Die Wirbelthiere Europa's. F. Vieweg &amp; Son, Braunschweig, xcviii + 248 pp." year="1840">Keyserling and Blasius 1840</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="57354710BF39102BE57F424E2485944D" authority="(Argyropulo 1941)" baseAuthorityName="Argyropulo" baseAuthorityYear="1941" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Spermophilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="808" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="selevini">
<emphasis id="91595B7EC1858C076FF61B45C7928A08" italics="true" pageNumber="808">Spermophilus selevini</emphasis>
(Argyropulo 1941)
</taxonomicName>
.
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<paragraph id="5B7EDA21884A893578AF6F7017BCB465" pageNumber="808">
<emphasis id="1BB93E37FD24F9785C39F890E8DA9F74" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="808">Distribution:</emphasis>
Steppe between Volga and Irtysh rivers (
<collectingCountry id="B6B1A3D2CC4966DBD69CA3EA83D98356" name="Russia">Russia</collectingCountry>
; N
<collectingCountry id="7F60E4B91EDF378840CB16C2FE80578B" name="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</collectingCountry>
). Formerly, steppe between Don and Volga rivers (
<collectingCountry id="74BB891AABFA9852C5336DA2FD759CBB" name="Russia">Russia</collectingCountry>
;
<bibRefCitation id="7EFFCD9AAABDFD044E7450CE8A2C499A" author="Gromov, I. M. &amp; D. I. Bibikov &amp; N. I. Kalabukhov &amp; M. N. N. Meier" refId="ref130487" refString="Gromov, I. M., D. I. Bibikov, N. I. Kalabukhov, and M. N. N. Meier. 1965. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, tom. 3, vyp. 2 [Fauna of the U. S. S. R. Mammals. vol. 3, No. 2]. Nazemnye belich'e [Ground Squirrels]. Nauka, Moscow-Leningrad, 467 pp. (in Russian)." year="1965">Gromov et al., 1965:291</bibRefCitation>
). Reported from Xinjiang (
<bibRefCitation id="F6D976B1C911B5FD151F234A0DDF1B04" author="Ma Yong &amp; Wang Feng-gui &amp; Jin Shan-ke &amp; Li Si-hua" refId="ref219723" refString="Ma Yong, Wang Feng-gui, Jin Shan-ke, and Li Si-hua. 1987. [Glires (rodents and lagomorphs) of Northern Xinjiang and their zoogeographical distribution.] Science Press, Academia Sinica, Beijing, 274 pp. (in Chinese)." year="1987">Ma et al., 1987</bibRefCitation>
); but probably a misidentified
<taxonomicName id="5DCA231DED596FE6F459A68303367E45" authorityName="Brandt" authorityYear="1843" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Spermophilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="brevicauda">
<emphasis id="F5FAB29A57AF9FC583D48A5E37A1D00E" italics="true" pageNumber="808">brevicauda</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="AAA497D37250BED999055D4A1CB56375" pageNumber="808" type="conservation">
<paragraph id="1A2BC7D6847CB2CD38E025D348D7EA97" pageNumber="808">
<emphasis id="1B3952F30061C813A477ACA966A7D01E" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="808">Conservation:</emphasis>
<collectionCode id="26DAC9B253331668005BB4242B843DB3">IUCN</collectionCode>
Lower Risk (nt).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="58E45A1C93D3899A8BA1AFC9A652E195" pageNumber="808" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="A08D4BB37B5E885000C23A6D6E2FA786" pageNumber="808">
<emphasis id="A736833F90A0EB7D0898D0D1C990199E" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="808">Discussion:</emphasis>
Subgenus
<taxonomicName id="3BCDE2B7ACB17E34E4BA7B8CEF400683" authorityName="Brandt" authorityYear="1844" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Colobotis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B6692FB6BF49CEB0E528A425553C0540" italics="true" pageNumber="808">Colobotis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
according to
<bibRefCitation id="C0CEA1748FF03EB695C0975D3DD8CDD9" author="Gromov, I. M. &amp; D. I. Bibikov &amp; N. I. Kalabukhov &amp; M. N. N. Meier" refId="ref130487" refString="Gromov, I. M., D. I. Bibikov, N. I. Kalabukhov, and M. N. N. Meier. 1965. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, tom. 3, vyp. 2 [Fauna of the U. S. S. R. Mammals. vol. 3, No. 2]. Nazemnye belich'e [Ground Squirrels]. Nauka, Moscow-Leningrad, 467 pp. (in Russian)." year="1965">Gromov et al. (1965:290)</bibRefCitation>
, but see
<bibRefCitation id="5EAE838F021710849FF7C5A4130A3270" author="Hall, E. R." refId="ref137310" refString="Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90." year="1981">Hall (1981:381)</bibRefCitation>
who included
<taxonomicName id="B9845E083859C5674FE804F15A9CEB4A" authorityName="Brandt" authorityYear="1844" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Colobotis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="E0F36F4CD66C8F352F54821E176C2E15" italics="true" pageNumber="808">Colobotis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in subgenus
<taxonomicName id="0081396290BD3DB945BF84E87B166CE5" baseAuthorityName="Hall" baseAuthorityYear="1981" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Spermophilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="5817C2E7FDF9B0570EBA5B06E72EC978" italics="true" pageNumber="808">Spermophilus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Occasionally hybridizes with
<taxonomicName id="7618EB5605C771E2402BC329FA00AD63" authorityName="Brandt" authorityYear="1843" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Spermophilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="brevicauda">
<emphasis id="39FA56A9728CEAE063D9084CC59376D6" italics="true" pageNumber="808">brevicauda</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="956D809F108FD27879BE75B76774A59D" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Spermophilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="fulvus">
<emphasis id="BA6A20378BE6518E84A474DED1024061" italics="true" pageNumber="808">fulvus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="C1E8877F76B2217665B7BEA40E522A3F" author="Denisov, V. P." refId="ref81268" refString="Denisov, V. P. 1963. O gibridizatsii vidov roda Citellus Oken [On hybridization of species of the genus Citellus Oken]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 42: 1887 - 1899 (in Russian)." year="1963">Denisov, 1963</bibRefCitation>
; Nikolskii and Starikov, 1997;
<bibRefCitation id="891C8C2A33B1CA25459C8C332FB666E6" 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>
), and more widely with
<taxonomicName id="18F8F316B8918AF91C6A8EA891D40985" baseAuthorityName="Pallas" baseAuthorityYear="1778" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Spermophilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="pygmaeus">
<emphasis id="D7437EA87CC1318A400667D9499F80A9" italics="true" pageNumber="808">pygmaeus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="8D9ED6F3AB98935E07F4508D3842DCAE" authority="(Ermakov, 1996)" baseAuthorityName="Ermakov" baseAuthorityYear="1996" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Spermophilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="suslicus">
<emphasis id="E212DB47ACD47AFA38F0F951739BC2F8" italics="true" pageNumber="808">suslicus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="FB1EEECE3AED56269CD3334ED1FA8125" author="Ermakov, O. A." refId="ref96286" refString="Ermakov, O. A. 1996. Citellus major and C. pygmaeus from Volga Region: Their distribution and interrelation. Cand. Sci. (Biol.) Dissertation, Moscow: Mosk. Gos. Univ." year="1996">Ermakov, 1996</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
<bibRefCitation id="34C0FF409CC4FA0DD9072AE905559857" author="Corbet, G. B." refId="ref67548" refString="Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp." year="1978">
Corbet (1978
<emphasis id="08B8C58F08320B4E4E01284F02D6D591" italics="true" pageNumber="808">c</emphasis>
:84)
</bibRefCitation>
provisionally included
<taxonomicName id="AEF5EBA105AF9237666856166B3B7C2F" authorityName="Brandt" authorityYear="1841" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Spermophilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="erythrogenys">
<emphasis id="AF30280B215F27E3AED8203521354E1B" italics="true" pageNumber="808">erythrogenys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="004E30CDE0F36F32AF757308F562EAAA" authorityName="Brandt" authorityYear="1843" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Spermophilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="brevicauda">
<emphasis id="DCC17F108DC9D50874A67B270F89B1EC" italics="true" pageNumber="808">brevicauda</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in this species, but
<bibRefCitation id="96F2D19B95038F3FDF0A0377DA466458" author="Gromov, I. M. &amp; D. I. Bibikov &amp; N. I. Kalabukhov &amp; M. N. N. Meier" refId="ref130487" refString="Gromov, I. M., D. I. Bibikov, N. I. Kalabukhov, and M. N. N. Meier. 1965. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, tom. 3, vyp. 2 [Fauna of the U. S. S. R. Mammals. vol. 3, No. 2]. Nazemnye belich'e [Ground Squirrels]. Nauka, Moscow-Leningrad, 467 pp. (in Russian)." year="1965">Gromov et al. (1965:290)</bibRefCitation>
and
<bibRefCitation id="E30ADBCAB153830AFF23EA3B6BC444E3" author="Vorontsov, N. N. &amp; E. A. Lyapunova" refId="ref377038" refString="Vorontsov, N. N., and E. A. Lyapunova. 1970. Khromosomnye chisla i vidoobrazovanie u nazemnykh belich'ikh (Sciuridae: Xerinae et Marmotinae) Golarktiki [Chromosome number and species formation in ground squirrels ... of the Holarctic]. Byulleten' Moskovskovo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody, Otdel Biologicheskii, 75: 122 - 136 (in Russian)." year="1970">Vorontsov and Lyapunova (1970)</bibRefCitation>
considered
<taxonomicName id="04A92FF881003D5F7FDF764E84B76539" authorityName="Brandt" authorityYear="1841" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Spermophilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="erythrogenys">
<emphasis id="372C6D5F76727A960F933634D6F54CF2" italics="true" pageNumber="808">erythrogenys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
a distinct species, and
<bibRefCitation id="9B4A70934274DBC11C3D4AB45E5662CA" author="Gromov, I. M. &amp; D. I. Bibikov &amp; N. I. Kalabukhov &amp; M. N. N. Meier" refId="ref130487" refString="Gromov, I. M., D. I. Bibikov, N. I. Kalabukhov, and M. N. N. Meier. 1965. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, tom. 3, vyp. 2 [Fauna of the U. S. S. R. Mammals. vol. 3, No. 2]. Nazemnye belich'e [Ground Squirrels]. Nauka, Moscow-Leningrad, 467 pp. (in Russian)." year="1965">Gromov et al. (1965:315)</bibRefCitation>
included
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<emphasis id="06ABA63EF102749D9EFB1B5A7F1D8369" italics="true" pageNumber="808">brevicauda</emphasis>
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in
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<emphasis id="85D6E78F579BC3D456AF1C97C3A513B0" italics="true" pageNumber="808">erythrogenys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; see comment under those species.
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<emphasis id="50BCA9EC800A0ED767A97AAD51B54ED1" italics="true" pageNumber="808">S. major</emphasis>
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is geographically cohesive, and allopatrically distributed with respect to
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<emphasis id="1EC23FD765468A587EE999492C90C7A6" italics="true" pageNumber="808">brevicauda</emphasis>
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, and allopatric (
<bibRefCitation id="2DF1F51B63FF13D65F5F0F9BF7CE689E" author="Bobrinskii, N. A. &amp; B. A. Kuznetsov &amp; A. P. Kuzyakin" refId="ref34249" refString="Bobrinskii, N. A., B. A. Kuznetsov, and A. P. Kuzyakin. 1965. Opredelitl' mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Guide to the mammals of the U. S. S. R.] Second ed. Proveshchenie, Moscow, 382 pp. (in Russian)." year="1965">Bobrinskii et al., 1965:61</bibRefCitation>
) or narrowly sympatric to
<taxonomicName id="F6C1632594BA6AC963E7A5B6E8BB2FB9" authority="(Sludskii et al., 1969: 162)" baseAuthorityName="Sludskii" baseAuthorityPageNumber="162" baseAuthorityYear="1969" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Spermophilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="erythrogenys">
<emphasis id="131B588590512BD5D17311ACF67D59A1" italics="true" pageNumber="808">erythrogenys</emphasis>
(
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)
</taxonomicName>
. In contrast, it it genetically unstable, grouping with either
<taxonomicName id="D992A8E945EDA367CCC445D44F2B4AF8" authorityName="Brandt" authorityYear="1843" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Spermophilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="brevicauda">
<emphasis id="D7EF3DD14FE1BF73D88BEC0D817DB1A7" italics="true" pageNumber="808">brevicauda</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
or
<taxonomicName id="B2399B9C6E8EDC88A9638DB3ACA7CEF3" baseAuthorityName="Pallas" baseAuthorityYear="1778" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Spermophilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="pygmaeus">
<emphasis id="6876B059987B170F55BCE757399FB47E" italics="true" pageNumber="808">pygmaeus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in sequence data (
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), probably as a result of hybridization (see specimens examined). Formerly included
<taxonomicName id="BDEF858881FAB97D8BF6DF2456C41D25" authority="(Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1955)" baseAuthorityName="Ellerman and Morrison-Scott" baseAuthorityYear="1955" class="Mammalia" family="Sciuridae" genus="Spermophilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="relictus">
<emphasis id="E6AFF7DE38D68DB5F24B5DE9B0DB37C6" italics="true" pageNumber="808">relictus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="ED3152FA61772A8C8FDF90B41FE46D90" author="Ellerman, J. R. &amp; T. C. S. Morrison-Scott" refId="ref93260" refString="Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1955. Supplement to Chasen (1940) A handlist of Malaysian mammals, containing a generic synonomy and a complete index. British Museum (Natural History), London, 66 pp." year="1955">Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1955</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
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</subSubSection>
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