Ammospermophilus Merriam, 1892

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 : 419

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TYPE SPECIES: Tamias leucurus Merriam, 1889 .

COMMENTS: Tribe Otospermophilini ( Gromov et al., 1965) or Marmotini . Formerly included in Spermophilus ( Hershkovitz, 1949b) ; Bryant (1945) considered Ammospermophilus a distinct genus. Recent biochemical and chromosomal data support Bryant's recognition of generic status.

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Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Rodentia
Family	Sciuridae

Ammospermophilus Merriam, 1892

Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson 1993

1993

Ammospermophilus

Merriam 1892: 27

1892

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