Azerbaijani mouse-like hamster

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Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Superfamily: Muroidea
Family: Calomyscidae
Genus: Calomyscus
Species: C. urartensis
Binomial name
Calomyscus urartensis
(Vorontsov, Kartavtseva, Potapova, 1979)

The Azerbaijani mouse-like hamster, Calomyscus urartensis, is a medium sized mouse-like hamster from Nakhichevan, Azerbaijan and northwestern Azarbaijan Province, Iran. It is among the better studied representatives of this poorly known genus. The initial species description was based on a unique chromosome number (2n=32; FNa=42) called a karyotype. The species status has been confirmed with other chromosomal studies and morphometric studies. The species description by Vorontsov et al. (1979) and subsequent prompted elevation of several subspecies of Calomyscus bailwardi to species status.

[edit] References

  • Baillie (1996). Calomyscus urartensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 06 May 2006.
  • Vorontsov, N. N., I. Kartavtseva, and E. G. Potapova. 1979. [Systematics of the genus Calomyscus. 1. Karyological differentiation of the sibling species from Transcaucasia and Turkmenia and a review of species in the genus Calomyscus] (in Russian). Zoologichaskii Zhurual, 58:1391-1397.
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