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Spermophilus townsendii Bachman, 1839 Townsend's ground squirrel ( Urocitellus townsendii ) is a rare species of rodent in the family Sciuridae . It is endemic to Washington in the United States.
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.
Spermophilus is a genus of ground squirrels in the squirrel family. [1] As traditionally defined the genus was very species-rich, ranging through Europe, Asia and North America, but this arrangement was found to be paraphyletic to the certainly distinct prairie dogs , marmots , and antelope squirrels .
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.
California ground squirrel (Spermophilus beecheyi) Belding's ground squirrel (Spermophilus beldingi) Golden-mantled ground squirrel (Spermophilus lateralis) Mohave ground squirrel (Spermophilus mohavensis) Round-tailed ground squirrel (Spermophilus tereticaudus) Townsend's ground squirrel (Spermophilus townsendii) Rock squirrel (Spermophilus ...
Spermophilus tridecemlineatus The thirteen-lined ground squirrel ( Ictidomys tridecemlineatus ), also known as the striped gopher , leopard ground squirrel , and squinny (formerly known as the leopard-spermophile in the age of Audubon ), is a ground squirrel that is widely distributed over grasslands and prairies of North America.
Townsend's ground squirrel (Spermophilus townsendii) is endemic to the southwestern region of the state of Washington. [7] Townsend's chipmunk (Tamias townsendii), Townsend's mole (Scapanus townsendii), and Townsend's vole (Microtus townsendii) occur in the northwest of the United States and southwest of British Columbia. [7]
The Caucasian Mountain ground squirrel (Spermophilus musicus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. Its taxonomic status has been the subject of much debate, and it has at times been treated as a subspecies of the little ground squirrel .