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Urocitellus elegans (Wyoming ground squirrel)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

Taxonomy
Spermophilus elegans was named by Kennicott (1863). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Spermophilus richardsonii by Bailey (1893) and Hall (1981); it was recombined as Citellus elegans by Howell (1928), Hibbard (1937) and Davis (1939); it was recombined as Urocitellus elegans by Helgen et al. (2009).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1863Spermophilus elegans Kennicott
1928Citellus elegans Howell
1937Citellus elegans Hibbard p. 233
1939Citellus elegans Davis
1967Citellus kimballensis Kent
1982Spermophilus elegans Fagerstone
1985Spermophilus elegans Michener and Koeppel
1992Spermophilus elegans Dalquest and Schultz
1993Spermophilus elegans Wilson and Reeder
2009Urocitellus elegans Helgen et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
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
genusUrocitellusObolenskij 1927
specieselegans(Kennicott 1863)

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.

Urocitellus elegans Kennicott 1863 [Wyoming ground squirrel]
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Invalid names: Citellus kimballensis Kent 1967 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available