Salpingotus michaelis Fitzgibbon, 1966

Mary Ellen Holden, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Dipodidae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 487-499 : 492

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scientific name	Salpingotus michaelis Fitzgibbon, 1966
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Salpingotus michaelis Fitzgibbon, 1966 View in CoL . Mammalia, 30(3):431.

TYPE LOCALITY: Pakistan, NW Baluchistan, Nushki Plateau, appox. 29°N, 66°E, altitude 3,500 ft GoogleMaps .

DISTRIBUTION: Pakistan, NW Baluchistan ( Roberts, 1977).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Salpingotulus . Pavlinov (1980b) placed S. michaelis in a separate genus, Salpingotulus , based on genital morphology, tooth characters, and shape of the condylar process; this arrangement was followed by Vorontsov and Shenbrot (1984). The results of a morphometric and qualitative study of Salpingotus by Vorontsov and Shenbrot (1984) showed substructure within the genus based on overall similarity, with S. michaelis joining the clusters of other Salpingotus at a high level of dissimilarity, followed by S. kozlovi . Their results indicated that generic separation of michaelis was not supported, particularly if kozlovi was retained in Salpingotus . In addition, no phylogenetic study has been done. Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987:162) suggested that Salpingotus included Salpingotulus , a hypothesis followed here.

For discussion of S. michaelis versus S. thomasi , and the possible occurance of S. michaelis in Afghanistan, see Hassinger (1973) and Roberts (1977). See also comment under S. thomasi .

References

Hassinger, J. D. 1973. A survey of the mammals of Afghanistan resulting from the 1965 Street Expedition (excluding bats). Fieldiana: Zoology, 60: 1 - 195.

Pavlinov, I. Ya. 1980 b. Nadvidovye gruppirovki v podsemeistve Cardiocraniinae Satunin (Mammalia, Dipodidae) [Superspecies groupings in the subfamily Cardiocraniinae Satunin (Mammalia, Dipodidae)]. Vestnik Zoologii, 2: 47 - 51 (in Russian).

Pavlinov, I. Ya., and O. L. Rossolimo. 1987. Sistematika mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Systematics of the mammals of the USSR.]. Moscow University Press, Moscow, 282 pp. (in Russian).

Roberts, T. J. 1977. The mammals of Pakistan. Ernest Benn Limited, London, 361 pp.

Vorontsov, N. N., and G. I. Shenbrot. 1984. [A systematic review of the genus Salpingotus (Rodentia, Dipodidae), with a description of Salpingotus pallidus sp. n. from Kazakhstan.] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 63 (5): 731 - 744 (in Russian).