Don E. Wilson;Thomas E. Lacher, Jr;Russell A. Mittermeier
Species
Least ConcernBarbary Ground Squirrel
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderRodentia
- FamilySciuridae
Observations1,507
Observations recorded4,212
via GBIF · IUCN
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 182
- With media
- 21
- Family
- Sciuridae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, UAZ, UMMZ, CAS, USNM
- Recorded in
- Libya, Morocco
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Encyclopedic overview
The Barbary ground squirrel (Atlantoxerus getulus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is monotypic within the genus Atlantoxerus. It is endemic to the Atlas mountains in Morocco and some parts in Algeria, and has been introduced into the Canary Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, temperate grassland and rocky areas where it lives colonially in burrows. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Atlantoxerus getulus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.