@article { author = {Akbarirad, Safie and Darvish, Jamshid and Aliabadian, Mansour and Kilpatrick, C. William}, title = {Biosystematic study of Calomyscus mystax (Rodentia, Calomyscidae) from northeastern Iran}, journal = {Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics}, volume = {11}, number = {1}, pages = {65-77}, year = {2015}, publisher = {Ferdowsi University of Mashhad}, issn = {1735-434X}, eissn = {2423-4222}, doi = {10.22067/ijab.v11i1.46145}, abstract = {We use a combination of traditional and geometric morphometric plus phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences to confirm the presence in the Kopetdagh Mts. of northeastern Iran (North Khorasan province) of the Great Balkhan brush-tailed mouse, Calomyscus mystax Kashkarov, 1925 previously regarded as endemic to the Nibit-Dag region of southwestern Turkmenistan. We further compare C. mystax to other brush-tailed mice species in eastern and northern Iran and provide diagnostic external and craniodental characters for each and to examine the affinities with C. grandis with which C. mystax shares a similar karyotype.}, keywords = {Calomyscus mystax,Kopetdagh Mts,northeastern Iran}, url = {https://ijab.um.ac.ir/article_27462.html}, eprint = {https://ijab.um.ac.ir/article_27462_5b9b54223cfc681b42b5c17414a5ffba.pdf} }