Spermophilus columbianus (Ord, 1815)

Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 419-465 : 445-446

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scientific name	Spermophilus columbianus (Ord, 1815)
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Spermophilus columbianus (Ord, 1815) View in CoL . In Guthrie, New Geogr., Hist., Coml. Grammar, Philadelphia, 2nd ed., 2:292.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Between the forks of the Clearwater and Kooskooskie rivers," [Idaho Co., Idaho, USA].

DISTRIBUTION: SE British Columbia and W Alberta ( Canada) to NE Oregon, C Idaho, and C Montana ( USA).

SYNONYMS: albertae (J. Allen, 1903); brachiura (Rafinesque, 1817); erythrogluteia (Richardson, 1829); ruficaudus (A. Howell, 1928) .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Urocitellus according to Gromov et al. (1965:196), but Hall (1981:381) included Urocitellus in subgenus Spermophilus . Chromosomes described by Nadler et al. (1975a). Reviewed by Elliot and Flinders (1991, Mammalian Species, 372).