Spermophilus (Spermophilus) pygmaeus (Pallas 1778)
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Spermophilus (Spermophilus) pygmaeus (Pallas 1778) View in CoL
[Mus] pygmaeus Pallas 1778 , Nova Spec. Quad. Glir. Ord.: 122.
Type Locality: "Maximos et paene dixerim monstrosos Citillós passim ad inferiorum laikum in campis squalidis." Restricted by Ognev (1963 a:102) to "lower reaches of the Ural River" "Indersk [ Kazakhstan]" .
Vernacular Names: Little Ground Squirrel.
Subspecies: :
Subspecies Spermophilus (Spermophilus) pygmaeus subsp. pygmaeus Pallas 1778
Subspecies Spermophilus (Spermophilus) pygmaeus subsp. brauneri Martino 1914
Subspecies Spermophilus (Spermophilus) pygmaeus subsp. herbicolus Martino 1914
Subspecies Spermophilus (Spermophilus) pygmaeus subsp. mugosaricus Lichtenstein 1823
Distribution: SW Ukraine; S Ural Mtns to Crimea ( Russia); Kazakhstan; NW Uzbekistan; Dagestan ( Georgia).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Subgenus Spermophilus , see Gromov et al. (1965:257) and comment under musicus . Hybridizes rarely with erythrogenys and fulvus , and more frequently with major and suslicus ( Bazhanov 1944; Denisov, 1964); in zone of contact SW of Saratov ( Russia) ( Denisov and Smirnova, 1976; Ermakov, 1996).
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