Baja California rock squirrel
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Baja California rock squirrel | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Genus: | Otospermophilus |
Species: | O. atricapillus |
Binomial name | |
Otospermophilus atricapillus (W. E. Bryant, 1889) |
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Synonyms | |
Spermophilus atricapillus W. E. Bryant, 1889 |
The Baja California rock squirrel (Otospermophilus atricapillus) is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is endemic to Mexico.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Álvarez-Castañeda, S. T., Castro-Arellano, I. & Lacher, T. (2008). Spermophilus atricapillus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 8 January 2009.
- ^ Helgen, Kristofer M.; Cole, F. Russel; Helgen, Lauren E.; and Wilson, Don E (2009). "Generic Revision in the Holarctic Ground Squirrel Genus Spermophilus". Journal of Mammalogy 90 (2): 270–305. doi:10.1644/07-MAMM-A-309.1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 October 2011.
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