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Eutamias (chipmunk)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

Taxonomy
Eutamias was named by Trouessart (1880) [treated as a genus by Howell 1922, 1929]. It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Tamias by Ellerman (1940), Bryant (1945), James (1963), Gromov (1965), Nadler et al. (1969), Levenson et al. (1985), Wilson and Reeder (1993) and Piaggio and Spicer (2000).

It was assigned to Sciuridae by Trouessart (1880), White (1953), Hall and Kelson (1959), Black (1963), Shotwell (1970), Ellis and Maxson (1979), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Hall (1981), Hafner (1984), McKenna and Bell (1997), Jameson (1999) and Piaggio and Spicer (2001); and to Marmotini by Mercer and Roth (2003).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1880Eutamias Trouessart
1953Eutamias White
1959Eutamias Hall and Kelson
1963Eutamias Black
1970Eutamias Shotwell
1979Eutamias Ellis and Maxson
1980Eutamias Kurten and Anderson p. 220
1981Eutamias Hall
1984Eutamias Hafner
1997Eutamias McKenna and Bell
1999Eutamias Jameson
2001Eutamias Piaggio and Spicer
2003Eutamias Mercer and Roth

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
EuarchontogliresMurphy et al. 2001
GliriformesWyss and Meng 1996
Glires()
Simplicidentata()
orderRodentiaBowdich 1821
superfamilySciuroidea
familySciuridae
tribeMarmotini
genusEutamiasTrouessart 1880

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Eutamias Trouessart 1880 [chipmunk]
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Eutamias minimus Bachman 1839 [least chipmunk]
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Invalid names: Eutamias atristriatus Bailey 1913 [synonym], Eutamias caniceps Osgood 1900 [synonym], Eutamias consobrinus Allen 1890 [synonym], Eutamias oreocetes Merriam 1897 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available