Urocitellus parryii

(J. Richardson, 1825)

Arctic Ground Squirrel

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Sciuromorpha
Family : Sciuridae
Subfamily : Xerinae
Tribe : Marmotini
Genus : Urocitellus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Richardson, J. 1825. Account of the quadrupeds and birds. Pp. 287–379 in Anonymous. (eds.). Appendix to Captain Parry's Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, performed in His Majesty's Ships Fury and Hecla, in the Years 1821-22-23. John Murray, London, 432 pp.

Original name as described

Arctomys Parryii

Type locality

no type locality given. Restricted by E. A. Preble in 1902 to "Five Hawser Bay, Lyon Inlet, Melville Peninsula, [Hudson Bay, Keewatin District, Northwest Territories,] Canada."

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic · Nearctic

Country distribution

Russia · United States · Canada

Subregion distribution

USA(AK)

Taxonomy notes

moved to Urocitelus 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-309.3

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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