Long-clawed ground squirrel
Species of rodent
Long-clawed ground squirrel Temporal range: Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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Conservation status | |
![]() Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Tribe: | Xerini |
Genus: | Spermophilopsis Blasius, 1884 |
Species: | S. leptodactylus |
Binomial name | |
Spermophilopsis leptodactylus (Lichtenstein, 1823) |
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.
References
- ^ a b Molur, S. (2017) [errata version of 2016 assessment]. "Spermophilopsis leptodactylus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T20471A115158585. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T20471A22249018.en. 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.
External links
- Tree of Life: Spermophilopsis leptodactylus
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- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Rodentia
- Suborder: Sciuromorpha
Atlantoxerus |
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Spermophilopsis |
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Xerus (African ground squirrels) |
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Epixerus |
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Funisciurus (African striped squirrels) |
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Heliosciurus (sun squirrels) |
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Myosciurus |
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Paraxerus (African bush squirrels) |
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Protoxerus (African giant squirrels) |
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