Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Alternative combination: Citellus finlayensis
Full reference: W. S. Strain. 1966. Blancan mammalian fauna and Pleistocene formations, Hudspeth County, Texas. Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 10:1-55
Belongs to Spermophilus according to W. W. Korth 1994
See also Kurten and Anderson 1980, Shotwell 1968 and Strain 1966
Sister taxa: Spermophilus armatus, Spermophilus cochisei, Spermophilus columbianus, Spermophilus cragini, Spermophilus dotti, Spermophilus howelli, Spermophilus johnstoni, Spermophilus lorisrusselli, Spermophilus mcgheei, Spermophilus meadensis, Spermophilus meltoni, Spermophilus primitivus, Spermophilus rexroadensis, Spermophilus russelli, Spermophilus spilosoma, Spermophilus superciliosus, Spermophilus taylori, Spermophilus tephrus, Spermophilus tridecemlineatus, Spermophilus tuitus, Spermophilus wellingtonensis, Spermophilus wilsoni
Type specimen: Its type locality is Hudspeth (TMM 40240), which is in a Blancan terrestrial horizon in the Fort Hancock Formation of Texas
Ecology: semifossorial granivore-frugivore
Distribution: found only at Hudspeth (TMM 40240)
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