Ictidomys
| Ictidomys | |
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| Mexican ground squirrel (Ictidomys mexicanus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Tribe: | Marmotini |
| Genus: | Ictidomys J. A. Allen, 1877 |
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Ictidomys is a North American genus of
molecular data showed that this genus was not a natural, monophyletic
grouping.
Species
| Image | Name | Distribution |
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Ictidomys mexicanus |
Mexico and the United States. |
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Ictidomys parvidens |
United States (Texas and New Mexico) and in north-eastern Mexico. |
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Ictidomys tridecemlineatus |
North America |
References
- Herron, Matthew D.; Castoe, Todd A.; Parkinson, Christopher L. (2004). "Sciurid phylogeny and the paraphyly of Holarctic ground squirrels (Spermophilus)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 31 (3): 1015–30. PMID 15120398.
- Helgen, Kristofer M.; Cole, F. Russel; Helgen, Lauren E.; Wilson, Don E (2009). "Generic Revision in the Holarctic Ground Squirrel Genus Spermophilus" (PDF). Journal of Mammalogy. 90 (2): 270–305. doi:10.1644/07-MAMM-A-309.1. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2012-04-15.