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Spermophilus (Spermophilus) ralli Kuznetsov 1948

Description

Spermophilus (Spermophilus) ralli Kuznetsov 1948

Spermophilus (Spermophilus) ralli Kuznetsov 1948, Zveri Kirgizii [Animals of Kirgiziya, Moscow Soc. of Naturalists]: 39.

Type Locality: "Tip iz kotlovinny Oz. Issyk-Kul’" [Type from basin of lake Issyk-Kul’] (Kuznetsov, 1965:264).

Vernacular Names: Tien Shan Ground Squirrel.

Distribution: Mountains and valleys surrounding the eastern end of the Issyk-Kul’ valley, from the Terskii-Alatau in the southeast to the Ketmen’ Alatau in the northeast. Its range is separated from that of S. relictus, which occupies the western Tien Shan.

Discussion: This species is usually included in S. relictus as an allopatric subspecies, but molecular sequence data indicate that the two taxa are separate (Harrison et al., 2003). Kuznetsov’s name is regarded as having priority over ralli (Heptner, 1948; a replacement name for pygmaeus arenicola; and thus preoccupied), but Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) indicated that Kuznetsov (1948) might not have been published in May, but later, in July-August, while pygmaeus ralli was published in May, 1948. If so, Kuznetsov, 1948 is preoccupied.

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 754-818 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 810, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Kuznetsov
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Sciuridae
Genus
Spermophilus
Species
ralli
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Spermophilus (Spermophilus) ralli Kuznetsov, 1948 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Kuznetsov, B. A. 1948. Zveri Kirgizii [Animals of Kirgiziya]. Byul. Mosk. O-va. Ispyt. Priroda, Otd. Biol. [Bulletin Moscow Society Naturalists] 12: 1 - 27.
  • Kuznetsov, B. A. 1965. Ordo Rodentia. Pp. 236 - 346, in Opredelitel' mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Guide to the mammals of the USSR] (Bobrinskii, N. A., Kuznetsov, B. A. and A. P. Kuzyakin, eds.). Second edition. Proveshchenie, Moscow, 382 pp. (in Russian).
  • Harrison, R. G., S. M. Bogdanowicz, R. S. Hoffmann, E. Yensen, and P. W. Sherman. 2003. Phylogeny and evolutionary history of the ground squirrels (Rodentia, Marmotinae). Journal of Molecular Evolution, 10 (3): 249 - 276.
  • Pavlinov, I. Ya., and O. L. Rossolimo. 1987. Sistematika mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Systematics of the mammals of the USSR.]. Moscow University Press, Moscow, 282 pp. (in Russian).