Xerospermophilus spilosoma

(E. T. Bennett, 1833)

Spotted Ground Squirrel

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Bennett, E.T. 1833-05-17. Specimens were exhibited of numerous Mammalia recently obtained by the Society from that part of California which adjoins to Mexico. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1833:39-42.

Original name as described

Spermophilus spilosoma

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1853.8.29.5

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

"that part of California which adjoins to Mexico." Restricted by A. H. Howell in 1938 to Durango City, Durango, Mexico.

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic

Country distribution

United States · Mexico

Subregion distribution

USA(NE,OK,NM,TX,KS,WY,AZ,CO,SD,UT?)

Taxonomy notes

moved to Xerospermophilus 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-309.4

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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