Tamias sibiricus (Laxmann, 1769) . Sibirische Briefe, Gottingen, p. 69.

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

DISTRIBUTION: N European and Siberian Russia to Sakhalin; S Kurile Isis (Russia); extreme E Kazakhstan to N Mongolia, China, Korea, and Hokkaido (Japan).

SYNONYMS: albogularis (J. Allen, 1909); altaicus (Hollister, 1912); asiaticus (Gmelin, 1788); barberi (Johnson and Jones, 1955); intercessor (Thomas, 1908); jacutensis (Ognev, 1935); lineatus (Siebold, 1824); okadae (Kuroda, 1932); ordinalis (Thomas, 1908); orientalis Bonhote, 1899; pallosi Baird, 1856; senescens (Miller, 1898); striatus (Pallas, 1778); umbrosus (A. Howell, 1927); uthensis (Pallas, 1811).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Eutamias; see Gromov et al. (1965:125).