Yellow-cheeked chipmunk | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Genus: | Neotamias |
Species: | N. ochrogenys
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Binomial name | |
Neotamias ochrogenys (Merriam, 1897)
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The yellow-cheeked chipmunk (Neotamias ochrogenys), also known as the redwood chipmunk, is a species of rodent in the squirrel family, Sciuridae.[2] It is endemic to areas near the coast of northern California in the United States where it inhabits coastal coniferous forest.