Urar Mouse-like Hamster

Taxobox
name = Urar Mouse-like Hamster
status = LR/nt | status_system = IUCN2.3
trend = unknown
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Rodentia
superfamilia = Muroidea
familia = Calomyscidae
genus = "Calomyscus"
species = "C. urartensis"
binomial = "Calomyscus urartensis"
binomial_authority = Vorontsov, Kartavtseva, Potapova, 1979The Urar Mouse-like Hamster or 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.

References

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*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.