Spermophilus dauricus Brandt, 1843

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 : 446

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Spermophilus dauricus Brandt, 1843 View in CoL . Bull. Phys. Math. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 2:379.

TYPE LOCALITY: "...circa Torei lacum exiccatum Dauuriae et ad Onon Bursa rivum." ToreiNor (Lake), Chitinsk. Obi., Russia .

DISTRIBUTION: Transbaikalia ( Russia), Mongolia, N China.

SYNONYMS: mongolicus ( Milne-Edwards, 1867); ramosus (Thomas, 1909); umbratus (Thomas, 1908); yamashinae (Kuroda, 1939).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Spermophilus ( Gromov et al., 1965:244) . Corbet (1978c:83) tentatively included alashanicus in this species, but see Orlov and Davaa (1975) who provided evidence of specific distinctness. See comment under alashanicus . Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:506) included dauricus in citellus ; but see Gromov et al. (1965:244) who considered dauricus a distinct species.