Long-clawed ground squirrel
Long-clawed ground squirrel Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Tribe: | Xerini |
Genus: | Spermophilopsis Blasius, 1884 |
Species: | S. leptodactylus
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Binomial name | |
Spermophilopsis leptodactylus (Lichtenstein, 1823)
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The long-clawed ground squirrel (Spermophilopsis leptodactylus) is a
squirrel species native to grasslands and deserts in northeastern Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, northwestern Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.[1] It is the only member of the tribe Xerini not native to Africa
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References
- ^ . Retrieved 17 March 2022.
- Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. Pp. 754–818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.