Long-clawed ground squirrel
| Long-clawed ground squirrel Temporal range: Recent
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| Genus: | Spermophilopsis Blasius, 1884
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| Species: | S. leptodactylus
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| Spermophilopsis leptodactylus (Lichtenstein, 1823)
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The long-clawed ground squirrel (Spermophilopsis leptodactylus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is monotypic within the genus Spermophilopsis.[citation needed] It can be found in Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
References
- Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. Pp. 754–818 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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