Wyoming ground squirrel
{{Short description|Species of rodent}}
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| name = Wyoming ground squirrel
Urocitellus elegans
| fossil_range = {{fossil range|1.8|0}}
| image = Urocitellus elegans.jpg
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Urocitellus
| species = elegans
| authority = (Kennicott, 1863)Descriptions of four new species of Spermophilus, in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution. R Kennicott, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of …, 1863
| synonyms =
- Citellus elegans Kennicott, 1863
- Citellus kimballensis Kent, 1967
- Spermophilus elegans Kennicott, 1863
}}
The Wyoming ground squirrel (Urocitellus elegans) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to the Northwestern United States.
References
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- A pale mutation in the ground squirrel: An Albinoid Color-phase in Citellus elegans Resembling the Recessive Cream Mutation in the Rat. Frank H. Clark and William L. Jellison, J Hered (1937) 28 (7), pages 259–260, {{doi|10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a104375}}
- Life-history studies of the Wyoming ground squirrel (Citellus elegans elegans) in Colorado. William L. Burnett, Bulletin of the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station, 1931 ([http://hdl.handle.net/10217/5088 URL])
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Category:Endemic rodents of the United States
Category:Fauna of the Northwestern United States
Category:Natural history of Wyoming
Category:Mammals described in 1863
Category:Taxa named by Robert Kennicott
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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