Spermophilus (Spermophilus) musicus Ménétries 1832

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 : 809

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Spermophilus (Spermophilus) musicus Ménétries 1832 , Cat. Raisonne des Objets de Zoologie, St. Petersbourg: 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, 1963 a:114) to "Ush-Kulan [ Georgia]" .

Vernacular Names: Caucasian Mountain Ground Squirrel.

Synonyms: Spermophilus (Spermophilus) boehmii (Krassovskii 1932) ; Spermophilus (Spermophilus) magisteri (Heptner 1948) ; Spermophilus (Spermophilus) saturatus ( Ognev 1947) ; Spermophilus (Spermophilus) typicus (Satunin 1908) .

Distribution: N Caucasus Mtns ( Georgia).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Spermophilus ( Gromov et al., 1965:249) . Regarded by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:508) and Corbet (1978 c:83) as a subspecies of pygmaeus . Gromov et al. (1965:249) and Vorontsov and Lyapunova (1970) provided evidence of specific distinctness. Molecular sequence data place it close to pygmaeus ( Harrison et al., 2003) .