Ictidomys tridecemlineatus
(Mitchill, 1821)
Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Euarchontoglires |
| Order | : Rodentia |
| Suborder | : Sciuromorpha |
| Family | : Sciuridae |
| Subfamily | : Xerinae |
| Tribe | : Marmotini |
| Genus | : Ictidomys |
Species status
Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005
Authority citation
Mitchill, S.L. 1821. Description of two mammiferous animals of North America. New York Medical Repository (n.s.)6:248-250.
Authority publication link
https://books.google.com/books?id=sa4WAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA248Original name as described
Sciurus tridecem-lineatus
Type material
untraced (number not known)
Type kind
nonexistent
Type locality
near the source of the Mississippi River. Restricted by J. A. Allen in 1895 to central Minnesota, USA.
Biogeographic realm
Nearctic
Country distribution
Canada · United States
Subregion distribution
USA(CO,PA,SD,MO,IL,OH,ND,OK,UT,MI,MN,IN,WI,TX,IA,AZ,NM,WY,NE,KS,MT)
Taxonomy notes
moved to Ictidomys from Spermophilus
Taxonomy notes citation
Helgen, K. M., Cole, F. R., Helgen, L. E., & Wilson, D. E. (2009). Generic Revision in the Holarctic Ground Squirrel Genus Spermophilus. Journal of Mammalogy, 90(2), 270-305. http://doi.org/10.1644/07-MAMM-A-309.1IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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