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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER SCIUROMORPHA
--> FAMILY Sciuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Xerinae
--> TRIBE Marmotini
--> GENUS Spermophilus
--> SUBGENUS Ictidomys
SPECIES Spermophilus (Ictidomys) spilosoma
| Author: | Bennett, 1833. | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1833: 40. | | Common Name: | Spotted Ground Squirrel | | Type Locality: | "that part of California which adjoins to Mexico." Restricted by A. H. Howell (1938:122) to Durango [City], Durango, Mexico. | | Distribution: | C Mexico to S Texas, SW South Dakota, and NW Arizona (USA). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Ictidomys (Hall, 1981:395). Reviewed by Streubel and Fitzgerald (1978a, Mammalian Species No. 101). See comment under perotensis. Chromosomes of the race cabrerai described by Uribe-Alcocer et al. (1978). |
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