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
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.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33582468Original 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-309.3IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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