Long-clawed ground squirrel Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Tribe: | Xerini |
Genus: |
Spermophilopsis Blasius, 1884 |
Species: | S. leptodactylus
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Binomial name | |
Spermophilopsis leptodactylus (
Lichtenstein, 1823)
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The long-clawed ground squirrel (Spermophilopsis leptodactylus) is a squirrel species native to grasslands and deserts in northeastern Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, northwestern Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. [1] It is the only member of the tribe Xerini not native to Africa.