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Urocitellus parryii (arctic ground squirrel)

Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

Taxonomy
Arctomys parryii was named by Richardson (1825). It is extant.

It was recombined as Citellus parryii by Crile and Quiring (1940); it was synonymized subjectively with Spermophilus undulatus by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Hall and Kelson (1959); it was recombined as Spermophilus parryii by Gromov et al. (1965), Nadler et al. (1974), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Wilson and Reeder (1993) and Storer (2004); it was recombined as Urocitellus parryii by Helgen et al. (2009).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1825Arctomys parryii Richardson
1940Citellus parryii Crile and Quiring p. 249
1965Spermophilus parryii Gromov and et al.
1974Spermophilus parryii Nadler and et al.
1980Spermophilus parryii Kurten and Anderson p. 215
1993Spermophilus parryii Wilson and Reeder
2004Spermophilus parryii Storer p. 141
2009Urocitellus parryii 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
speciesparryii(Richardson 1825)

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 parryii Richardson 1825 [arctic ground squirrel]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available