Spermophilus xanthoprymnus (Bennett, 1835)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 1), Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 345-382 : 371

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scientific name	Spermophilus xanthoprymnus (Bennett, 1835)
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Spermophilus xanthoprymnus (Bennett, 1835) View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835:90.

TYPE LOCALITY: N.E. Turkey, Armenia, Erzerum (=Erzurum) .

DISTRIBUTION: Soviet Transcaucasia, Turkey, Syria, and Palestine.

COMMENT: Subgenus Spermophilus ; see Gromov et al., 1965:237. Regarded by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:506, and Corbet, 1978:83, as a synonym of citellus ; but see Gromov et al., 1965:237, and Vorontsov and Lyapunova, 1970, Byull. Mosk. Ova. Ispyt. Prir. Otd. Biol., 75: 122- 136, who provided evidence of specific distinctness.