Urar mouse-like hamster
Species of rodent
| Urar mouse-like hamster | |
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Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Calomyscidae |
| Genus: | Calomyscus |
| Species: | C. urartensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Calomyscus urartensis Vorontsov, Kartavtseva, Potapova, 1979 | |
The 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.[2] and subsequent prompted elevation of several subspecies of Calomyscus bailwardi to species status.
References
- ^ Shenbrot, G.; Kryštufek, B. (2016). "Calomyscus urartensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T3623A22185965. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T3623A22185965.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ 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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Extant species of family Calomyscidae (Mouse-like hamsters)
- Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster (Calomyscus bailwardi)
- Baluchi mouse-like hamster (Calomyscus baluchi)
- Goodwin's brush-tailed mouse (Calomyscus elburzensis)
- Noble mouse-like hamster (Calomyscus grandis)
- Hotson's mouse-like hamster (Calomyscus hotsoni)
- Great Balkhan mouse-like hamster (Calomyscus mystax)
- Tsolov's mouse-like hamster (Calomyscus tsolovi)
- Urar mouse-like hamster (Calomyscus urartensis)
- Behzad's mouse-like hamster (Calomyscus behzadi)
- Kerman mouse-like hamster (Calymyscus kermanensis)
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