Siberian chipmunk | |
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On the mountain of Seoraksan, South Korea | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Sciuridae |
Genus: | Eutamias |
Species: | E. sibiricus
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Binomial name | |
Eutamias sibiricus (Laxmann, 1769)
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Subspecies[2] | |
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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.