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Caged Tamias chipmunk, Tokyo area. The genus Tamias was formerly divided into three subgenera that, in sum, included all chipmunk species: Tamias, the eastern chipmunk and other fossil species; Eutamias, of which the Siberian chipmunk (E. sibiricus) is the only living member; and Neotamias, which includes the 23 remaining, mostly western ...
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct.
Three subspecies have recently been recognized as distinct species by some authorities: [6] Crater chipmunk, Neotamias cratericus, split from N. amoenus [7] Coulee chipmunk, Neotamias grisescens, split from N. minimus [7] Sierra del Carmen chipmunk, Neotamias solivagus, split from N. durangae [8]
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In total there are about 10,000 species of birds described worldwide, though one estimate of the real number places it at almost twice that. [1] The order passerines (perching birds) alone accounts for well over 5,000 species.
The species name comes from the Latin cantitia, meaning "gray in color", and pes, meaning "foot", and the genus name comes from the Greek word Tamias, meaning "a distributor". [6] N. canipes was formerly considered a subspecies of N. cinereicollis, the gray-collared chipmunk, but it was brought to species status in 1960. [8]
The scientific name of a species is a binomial or binomen, and comprises two Latin words, the first denoting the genus and the second denoting the species. [5] The scientific name of a subspecies is formed slightly differently in the different nomenclature codes. In zoology, under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), the ...
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