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Taxon: Genus Spermophilus Cuvier, 1825 - ground squirrels (mammal)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Rodentia - (Family) Sciuridae

Subsequent positions

Spermophilina (Subtribe) Moore, 1959

Current position

Spermophilina (Subtribe) Moore, 1959

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 124.

Alternative positions

Sciurinae (Subfamily) Batsch, 1788

Ref: R.S. Hoffmann et al., 1993: 444.

Historical positions

*Spermophilina* (Subtribe) Moore, 1959	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 124.
*Sciurinae* (Subfamily) Batsch, 1788	Ref: R.S. Hoffmann et al., 1993: 444.
*Sciurinae* (Subfamily) Batsch, 1788	Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 142.
*Sciuridae* (Family) Batsch, 1788	Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979

Number of Subtaxa

2026	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	38s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[38s]
1993	R.S. Hoffmann et al.	[38s]
1991	G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill	[36s]

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