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SPECIES Tamias (Eutamias) sibiricus
Author: | Laxmann, 1769. | Citation: | Sibirische Briefe, Gottingen: 69. | Common Name: | Siberian Chipmunk | Type Locality: | "Vicinity of Barnaul" [Altaisk Krai, Russia] (Chaworth-Musters, 1937). | Distribution: | N European and Siberian Russia to Sakhalin; S Kurile Isls (Russia); extreme E Kazakhstan to N Mongolia, China, Korea, and Hokkaido (Japan). Introduced into Austria, France, Germany, Holland and Italy (Niethammer and Krapp, 1978). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Subgenus Eutamias; see Gromov et al. (1965:125). Koh (1994) compared Korean and Manchurian forms. Oshida and Yoshida (1994) described the chromosomes of T. s. lineatus. |
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