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Richardson's ground squirrel (Urocitellus richardsonii), also known as the dakrat or flickertail, is a North American ground squirrel in the genus Urocitellus.Like a number of other ground squirrels, they are sometimes called prairie dogs or gophers, though the latter name belongs more strictly to the pocket gophers of family Geomyidae, and the former to members of the genus Cynomys.
Urocitellus is a genus of ground squirrels. They were previously believed to belong to the much larger genus Spermophilus , but DNA sequencing of the cytochrome b gene showed that this group was paraphyletic to the prairie dogs and marmots , [ 1 ] and could therefore no longer be retained as a single genus.
Eastern gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis introduced; Eastern fox squirrel, Sciurus niger; American red squirrel, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus; Uinta ground squirrel, Urocitellus armatus; Columbian ground squirrel, Urocitellus columbianus; Wyoming ground squirrel, Urocitellus elegans; Richardson's ground squirrel, Urocitellus richardsonii; Ord's ...
Pages in category "Urocitellus" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... Richardson's ground squirrel; S. Southern Idaho ground squirrel; T.
A mating plug in a female Richardson's ground squirrel (Urocitellus richardsonii) A mating plug, also known as a copulation plug, [1] sperm plug, vaginal plug, or sphragis (Latin, from Ancient Greek: σφραγίς sphragis, "a seal"), is a gelatinous secretion used in the mating of some species. It is deposited by a male into a female genital ...
Arctic ground squirrel, Urocitellus parryii [n 4] LC; Richardson's ground squirrel, Urocitellus richardsonii [n 4] LC; Townsend's ground squirrel, Urocitellus townsendii [n 4] VU. Townsend's ground squirrel, Urocitellus (townsendii) nancyae [12] [n 12] VU; Merriam's ground squirrel, Urocitellus canus [n 1] LC; Piute ground squirrel, Urocitellus ...
Urocitellus canus - Merriam's ground squirrel; Urocitellus columbianus - Columbian ground squirrel; Urocitellus elegans - Wyoming ground squirrel; Urocitellus endemicus - Southern Idaho ground squirrel; Urocitellus mollis - Piute ground squirrel; Urocitellus parryii - Arctic ground squirrel; Urocitellus richardsonii - Richardson's ground ...
Otospermophilus is a genus of ground squirrels in the family Sciuridae, containing three species from Mexico and the United States. Otospermophilus was formerly placed in the large ground squirrel genus Spermophilus, as a subgenus or species group.