Long-clawed ground squirrel
The long-clawed ground squirrel (Spermophilopsis leptodactylus) is a squirrel species native to grasslands and deserts in northeastern Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, northwestern Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.[1]
| Long-clawed ground squirrel | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Genus: | Spermophilopsis Blasius, 1884 |
| Species: | S. leptodactylus |
| Binomial name | |
| Spermophilopsis leptodactylus (Lichtenstein, 1823) | |
References
- Molur, S. (2016). "Spermophilopsis leptodactylus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T20471A115158585. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T20471A22249018.en.{{cite iucn}}: error: |doi= / |page= mismatch (help)
- Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. Pp. 754β818 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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