Golden-mantled ground squirrel | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Genus: | Callospermophilus |
Species: | C. lateralis
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Binomial name | |
Callospermophilus lateralis (Say, 1823)
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Synonyms | |
Spermophilus lateralis |
The golden-mantled ground squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis) is a ground squirrel native to western North America. It is distributed in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia and Alberta, and through much of the western United States.[1]