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Spermophilus (Poliocitellus) franklinii
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Spermophilus (Poliocitellus) franklinii (Sabine 1822)
[Arctomys] franklinii Sabine 1822, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., 13: 587.
Type Locality: None specified. Restricted by Preble (1908:165) to Carlton House, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Vernacular Names: Franklin's Ground Squirrel.
Distribution: N Great Plains; Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba (Canada), south to Kansas, Illinois, and Indiana (USA).
Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable.
Discussion: Subgenus Poliocitellus (Hall, 1981:397). Molecular sequence data (Harrison et al., 2003) group this species with Xerospermophilus, Ictidomys and Cynomys. Reviewed by Ostroff and Finck (2003, Mammalian Species No. 724).
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 754-818 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 807, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/91C4B717759630DB830679AF52629BE0 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/BE527E369DFA5063DAABDD953B607C48 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231538448 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sciuridae
- Genus
- Spermophilus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Sabine
- Species
- franklinii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Spermophilus (Poliocitellus) franklinii (Sabine, 1822) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Preble, E. A. 1908. A biological investigation of the Athabaska-Mackenzie region. North American Fauna, 27: 1 - 574.
- Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.
- Harrison, R. G., S. M. Bogdanowicz, R. S. Hoffmann, E. Yensen, and P. W. Sherman. 2003. Phylogeny and evolutionary history of the ground squirrels (Rodentia, Marmotinae). Journal of Molecular Evolution, 10 (3): 249 - 276.
- Ostroff, A. C., and E. J. Finck. 2003. Spermophilus franklinii. Mammalian Species. 724: 1 - 5.