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Wyoming ground squirrel
Urocitellus elegans
Temporal range: 1.8–0  Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Urocitellus
Species:
U. elegans
Binomial name
Urocitellus elegans
( Kennicott, 1863) [2]
Synonyms
  • Citellus elegans Kennicott, 1863
  • Citellus kimballensis Kent, 1967
  • Spermophilus elegans Kennicott, 1863

The Wyoming ground squirrel (Urocitellus elegans) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to the Northwestern United States.

References

  1. ^ Yensen, E.; NatureServe (2017). "Urocitellus elegans". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T42467A22265347. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T42467A22265347.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Descriptions of four new species of Spermophilus, in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution. R Kennicott, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of …, 1863
  • A pale mutation in the ground squirrel: An Albinoid Color-phase in Citellus elegans Resembling the Recessive Cream Mutation in the Rat. Frank H. Clark and William L. Jellison, J Hered (1937) 28 (7), pages 259–260, doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a104375
  • Life-history studies of the Wyoming ground squirrel (Citellus elegans elegans) in Colorado. William L. Burnett, Bulletin of the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station, 1931 ( URL)