Long-clawed ground squirrel

Long-clawed ground squirrel
Temporal range: Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Subfamily: Xerinae
Tribe: Xerini
Genus: Spermophilopsis
Blasius, 1884
Species: S. leptodactylus
Binomial name
Spermophilopsis leptodactylus
(Lichtenstein, 1823)

The long-clawed ground squirrel (Spermophilopsis leptodactylus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is monotypic within the genus Spermophilopsis. It can be found in Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

References

  1. Molur, S. (2008). "Spermophilopsis leptodactylus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  • 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.


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