Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Alternative combinations: Citellus fricki, Otospermophilus fricki
Belongs to Spermophilus according to W. W. Korth 1994
See also Barnosky 1986, Black 1963, Shotwell 1968 and Wilson and Reeder 1993
Sister taxa: Spermophilus armatus, Spermophilus boothi, Spermophilus cochisei, Spermophilus columbianus, Spermophilus cragini, Spermophilus cyanocittus, Spermophilus dotti, Spermophilus finlayensis, Spermophilus howelli, Spermophilus jerae, Spermophilus johnstoni, Spermophilus lorisrusselli, Spermophilus matachicensis, Spermophilus matthewi, Spermophilus mcgheei, Spermophilus mckayensis, Spermophilus meadensis, Spermophilus meltoni, Spermophilus primitivus, Spermophilus rexroadensis, Spermophilus russelli, Spermophilus shotwelli, Spermophilus spilosoma, Spermophilus superciliosus, Spermophilus taylori, Spermophilus tridecemlineatus, Spermophilus tuitus, Spermophilus wellingtonensis, Spermophilus wilsoni, Citellus ridgwayi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Jack Swayze Quarry, which is in a Hemphillian terrestrial horizon in the Ogallala Formation of Kansas
Ecology: semifossorial granivore-frugivore
Distribution: found only at Jack Swayze Quarry
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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