Spermophilus xanthoprymnus (Bennett, 1835)

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 : 450

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scientific name	Spermophilus xanthoprymnus (Bennett, 1835)
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Spermophilus xanthoprymnus (Bennett, 1835) View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835:90.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Erzurum " [ Turkey].

DISTRIBUTION: Transcaucasia ( Armenia, possibly Azerbaidzhan), Turkey, Syria, and Israel.

SYNONYMS: schmidti (Satunin, 1908).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Spermophilus ( Gromov et al. 1965:237) . Regarded by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:506) and Corbet (1978c:83) as a synonym of citellus ; but see Vasil'eva (1961), Gromov et al. (1965: 237), and Vorontsov and Lyapunova (1970), who provided evidence of specific distinctness.