Siberian chipmunk

Siberian chipmunk
On the mountain of Seoraksan, South Korea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Eutamias
Species:
E. sibiricus
Binomial name
Eutamias sibiricus
(Laxmann, 1769)
Subspecies[2]
  • sibiricus
  • asiaticus
  • lineatus
  • okadae
  • ordinalis
  • orientalis
  • pallasi
  • senescens
  • umbrosus
Siberian chipmunk range.[1]
Synonyms

Tamias sibiricus (Laxmann, 1769)

The Siberian chipmunk (Eutamias sibiricus), also called common chipmunk, is one of the genera of chipmunk native to northern Asia from central Russia to China, Korea, and Hokkaidō in northern Japan.[1] It was imported from South Korea and introduced in Europe as a pet in the 1960s.

  1. ^ a b c Tsytsulina, K.; Formozov, N.; Shar, S.; Lkhagvasuren, D. & Sheftel, B. (2017) [errata version of 2016 assessment]. "Eutamias sibiricus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T21360A115161465. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  2. ^ Thorington, R.W. Jr; Hoffman, R.S. (2005). "Species Tamias (Eutamias) sibiricus". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 754–818. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.