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Ammospermophilus leucurus (white-tailed antelope squirrel)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

Taxonomy
Tamias leucurus was named by Merriam (1889). It is extant.

It was recombined as Spermophilus leucurus by Hershkovitz (1949); it was recombined as Ammospermophilus leucurus by Merriam (1889), Merriam (1892), Bryant (1945), Kurten and Anderson (1980) and Wilson and Reeder (1993).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1889Ammospermophilus leucurus Merriam
1889Tamias leucurus Merriam
1892Ammospermophilus leucurus Merriam
1945Ammospermophilus leucurus Bryant
1949Spermophilus leucurus Hershkovitz
1980Ammospermophilus leucurus Kurten and Anderson p. 217
1993Ammospermophilus leucurus Wilson and Reeder

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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
genusAmmospermophilusMerriam 1892
speciesleucurus(Merriam 1889)

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.

Ammospermophilus leucurus Merriam 1889 [white-tailed antelope squirrel]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available