Spermophilus (Spermophilus) suslicus (Guldenstaedt 1770)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 754-818 : 811

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scientific name	Spermophilus (Spermophilus) suslicus (Guldenstaedt 1770)
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[Mus] suslicus Guldenstaedt 1770 , Nova Comm. Acad. Sci. Petropoli, 14: 389.

Type Locality: "...in campis vastissimus tanaicensibus precipue urbes et Tambov " [Voronezh area, Voronezhsk. Obl., Russia].

Vernacular Names: Speckled Ground Squirrel.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Spermophilus (Spermophilus) suslicus subsp. suslicus Guldenstaedt 1770

Subspecies Spermophilus (Spermophilus) suslicus subsp. boristhenicus Pusanov 1958

Subspecies Spermophilus (Spermophilus) suslicus subsp. guttatus Pallas 1770

Distribution: Steppes of E and S Europe, including Poland, E Romania, Ukraine north to Oka River and east to the Volga River ( Russia).

Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: Subgenus Spermophilus Gromov et al. (1965:212) . Reviewed by Corbet (1978 c) and Gromov and Erbajeva (1995), who listed only four subspecies. Hybridizes with major west of Kazan’ ( Ermakov, 1996). See also comment under pygmaeus .