Red-cheeked Ground Squirrel
Spermophilus erythrogenys
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 81
- Most observed in
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The red-cheeked ground squirrel (Spermophilus erythrogenys) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is commonly referred to as the red-cheeked ground souslik and there are several recognized subspecies. It is found in central Asia. Spermophilus brunnescens (Belyaev, 1943), Spermophilus heptneri (Vasil'eva, 1964) and Spermophilus ungae (Martino, 1923) are accepted as synonyms. There is some controversy over whether Spermophilus pallidicauda and Spermophilus brevicauda should be regarded as synonyms or full species.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Red-cheeked ground squirrel”.