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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- synonym
- Parent taxon
- Spermophilus
- Image
- Spermophilus parryii (eating mushroom).jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- Commons category
- Urocitellus parryii
- taxon name
- Spermophilus parryii
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- Urocitellus parryii
- taxon common name
- 长尾黄鼠
- sequenced genome URL
- www.ensembl.org/Urocitellus_parryii
- diel cycle
- diurnality
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Encyclopedic overview
The Arctic ground squirrel (Urocitellus parryii) (Inuktitut: ᓯᒃᓯᒃ, siksik) is a species of ground squirrel in the squirrel family Sciuridae that is native to the Arctic and Subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere, mainly in North America and Asia. For some people in Alaska, particularly around the Aleutian Islands, the rodents are known as "parka" squirrels, likely due to their pelts being used for the ruff on parkas and other cold-weather clothing.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arctic ground squirrel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.