Calomyscus tsolovi Peshev, 1991

Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, Zootaxa 5580 (1), pp. 1-130 : 34

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15121246

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3874162A-7E79-FFF0-FF42-FA4CB1B5149F

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scientific name

Calomyscus tsolovi Peshev, 1991
status

 

12. Syrian Brush-tailed Mouse (Tsolov’s Mouse-like Hamster), Calomyscus tsolovi Peshev, 1991 View in CoL

(IUCN Red List: DD)

Distribution: Known only from the villages of Tafas and Hammer in the Daraa District, southwestern region (Peshev 1989, 1991) ( Fig. 17 View FIGURE 17 ).

Remarks: Earlier on reported as a subspecies of Calomyscus bailwardi Thomas, 1905 . Known only from 14 museum vouchers which constitute the type series. We attempted to trace these vouchers, but none could be retrieved in the National Museum of Natural History and Faculty of Biology at the University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ (both in Sofia, Bulgaria). A single skull from the type series is kept in the collections of the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt a. M., Germany (B. Kryštufek, unpublished data).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Calomyscidae

Genus

Calomyscus

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