On colouration and karyology of the marbled polecat, vormela peregusna, in Turkey

Özkurt Ş., Sözen M., YİĞİT N., ÇOLAK E., Verimli R.

Zoology in the Middle East, vol.21, no.1, pp.13-18, 2000 (SCI-Expanded) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 21 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2000
  • Doi Number: 10.1080/09397140.2000.10637828
  • Journal Name: Zoology in the Middle East
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.13-18
  • Keywords: Distiribution, Karyology, Middle East, Turkey, Vormela peregusna
  • Ankara University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

A new record of the Marbled Polecat, Vormela peregusna, is given from south-eastern Turkey along with karyological and morphological including bacular characteristics. The specimen has a shorter black band at the tip of the tail than in a specimen examined from western Turkey and thus takes an intermediate position between specimens from Jordan and from western Turkey. Whereas the diploid chromosome number is the same as in Caucasia, Syria, western Turkey and Romania, the fundamental chromosome number (FN) and the number of autosomal arms (NFa) is higher than in Western Turkey, but the same as in Syria. © Max Kasparek Verlag, Heidelberg.