Tamias
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| Eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Tribe: | Marmotini |
| Genus: | Tamias Illiger, 1811 |
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Tamias is a
Marmotini of the squirrel family. The genus includes a single living species, the eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus).[1] The genus name Tamias (Greek: ταμίας) means "treasurer", "steward", or "housekeeper",[2] which is a reference to the animals' role in plant dispersal through their habit of collecting and storing food for winter use.[3]
The genus Tamias was formerly divided into three subgenera that, in sum, included all chipmunk species: Tamias, the
so they are now often considered as separate genera.In addition to the eastern chipmunk, some fossil species from Eurasia have been assigned to this genus:
- †Tamias allobrogensis; Mein and Ginsburg, 2002 – Miocene of France[8]
- †Tamias atsali; De Bruijn, 1995 – Pliocene of Greece[9]
- †Tamias eviensis; De Bruijn et al., 1980 – Miocene of Greece[10]
- †Tamiops.[11]
One American fossil species, †Tamias aristus from the late Pleistocene, has been identified.[12]
References
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- ^ Musser et al., 2010, p. 22
- ^ Henry George Liddell; Robert Scott. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon, revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- JSTOR 3503819.
- ^ Wilson, D. E.; D. M. Reeder (2005). "Mammal Species of the World". Archived from the original on 2007-06-23. Retrieved 2007-06-27.
- PMID 11527462. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2012-08-23. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
- S2CID 7623018. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2011-09-13. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
- S2CID 82712592.
- ^ Mein and Ginsburg, 2002
- ^ De Bruijn, 1995
- ^ Doukas, 2003, table 2
- ^ Qiu et al., 2008, p. 115
- JSTOR 3555320.