Spermophilus erythrogenys Brandt 1841

• Main Authors: James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman, James W. Koeppl
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• Published: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections 1982
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Sciuridae; Spermophilus; Spermophilus erythrogenys; Beringia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7201326; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/693D8793FFB8FF9C7208FBCCFB7FBEB3

Spermophilus erythrogenys Brandt, 1841. Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb., p. 43. TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Tomsk. Obi., foothills of Altai Mtns., near Barnaul. DISTRIBUTION: E. Kazakhstan and S.W. Siberia (U.S. S. R.); Sinkiang (China). Isolated population (pallidicauda) in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia (China). COMMENT: Includes brevicauda (^intermedins), carruthersi, and pallidicauda; subgenus Colobotis; see Gromov et al., 1965:315. Hall, 1981:381, included Colobotis in subgenus Spermophilus. Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:508, 511, regarded brevicauda and carruthersi as synonyms of pygmaeus, and pallidicauda as a full species. Sludskii et al., 1969, [Mammals of Kazakhstan], vol. 1, “Nauka”, Alma-Ata, p. 177, considered intermedius (=brevicauda) a full species. Provisionally included in major by Corbet, 1978:84; but see Gromov et al., 1965:315, Vorontsov and Lyapunova, 1970, Byull. Mosk. Ova. Ispyt. Prir. Otd. Biol., 75: 122-136, and 1976, pp. 337-353, in Beringia in Cenozoic, V. Kontrimavichus, ed., Acad. Sci., Vladivostok, for evidence of specific distinctness. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410002032017001 as S. pallidicauda. Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 1), pp. 345-382 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 368, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353023