Tamias (Eutamias) sibiricus (Laxmann 1769)

[Sciurus] sibiricus Laxmann 1769, Sibirische Briefe, Gottingen: 69.

Type Locality: "Vicinity of Barnaul" [Altaisk Krai, Russia] (Chaworth-Musters, 1937).

Vernacular Names: Siberian Chipmunk.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Tamias (Eutamias) sibiricus subsp. sibiricus Laxmann 1769

Subspecies Tamias (Eutamias) sibiricus subsp. asiaticus Gmelin 1788

Subspecies Tamias (Eutamias) sibiricus subsp. lineatus Siebold 1824

Subspecies Tamias (Eutamias) sibiricus subsp. okadae Kuroda 1932

Subspecies Tamias (Eutamias) sibiricus subsp. ordinalis Thomas 1908

Subspecies Tamias (Eutamias) sibiricus subsp. orientalis Bonhote 1899

Subspecies Tamias (Eutamias) sibiricus subsp. pallasi Baird 1856

Subspecies Tamias (Eutamias) sibiricus subsp. senescens Miller 1898

Subspecies Tamias (Eutamias) sibiricus subsp. umbrosus A. H. Howell 1927

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).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: 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.