Spermophilus richardsonii (Sabine, 1822)

Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 419-465 : 449

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7353130

DOI

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scientific name

Spermophilus richardsonii (Sabine, 1822)
status

 

Spermophilus richardsonii (Sabine, 1822) View in CoL . Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 13:589.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Carleton-House," [Saskatchewan, Canada] .

DISTRIBUTION: N Great Plains in S Alberta, S Saskatchewan, S Manitoba ( Canada), Montana (see Swenson, 1981), North Dakota, NE South Dakota, W Minnesota, and NW Iowa ( USA).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Spermophilus ( Hall, 1981:385) . Formerly included elegans ; see comment under that species. Reviewed by Michener and Koeppl (1985, Mammalian Species, 243).

Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.

Michener, G. R., and J. W. Koeppl. 1985. Spermophilus richardsonii. Mammalian species, 243: 1 - 8.

Swenson, J. E. 1981. Distribution of Richardson's ground squirrel in eastern Montana. Prairie Naturalist, 13: 27 - 30.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Sciuridae

Genus

Spermophilus