Spermophilus musicus Ménétries, 1832

Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 419-465 : 448

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Spermophilus musicus Ménétries, 1832 View in CoL . Cat. Raisonne des Objets de Zoologie, St. Petersbourg, p. 21.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Il habite le Caucase sur les montagnes le plus élevées et pas loin des nieges éternalles." Restricted by Sviridenko (1927, see Ognev, 1963a: 114) to "Ush-Kulan," [Georgia] .

DISTRIBUTION: N Caucasus Mtns ( Georgia).

SYNONYMS: boehmii (Krassovskii, 1932); saturatus ( Ognev, 1947) .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Spermophilus ( Gromov et al., 1965:249) . Regarded by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:508) and Corbet (1978c:83) as a subspecies of pygmaeus . Gromov et al. (1965:249) and Vorontsov and Lyapunova (1970) provided evidence of specific distinctness.