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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER SCIUROMORPHA
--> FAMILY Sciuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Xerinae
--> TRIBE Marmotini
--> GENUS Spermophilus
--> SUBGENUS see comments
SPECIES Spermophilus (see comments) parryii
| Author: | Richardson, 1825. | | Citation: | In Parry, Voy. discovery Northwest Passage, Vol. 6- app. second voy.: 316. | | Common Name: | Arctic Ground Squirrel | | Type Locality: | Restricted by Preble (1902:46) to "Five Hawser Bay, Lyon Inlet, Melville Peninsula, [Hudson Bay, Keewatin District, Northwest Territories], Canada." | | Distribution: | NW Canada; Alaska (USA); NE Yakutia, Anadyrsk, Krai, and Chukotka (Russia). | | Comments: | Subgenus Urocitellus according to Gromov et al. (1965:184), but see Hall (1981:381) who included Urocitellus in subgenus Spermophilus. Regarded by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:511) and Hall and Kelson (1959:343) as a synonym of undulatus. Gromov et al. (1965:184) and Nadler et al. (1974) provided evidence of specific distinctness. Reviewed by Chernyavskii (1972), Nadler and Hoffmann (1977), Serdyuk (1979) (Palearctic), and Pearson (1981) (Nearctic). Nikol'skii and Wallschläger (1982) noted differences in alarm calls between Siberian and Alaskan populations. |
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