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Tamias
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Tamias is a genus of chipmunks in the tribe Marmotini of the squirrel family. The genus includes a single living species, the eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus). The genus name Tamias () means "treasurer", "steward", or "housekeeper", which is a reference to the animals' role in plant dispersal through their habit of collecting and storing food for winter use.
Tamias is a genus of chipmunks that includes only one living species, the eastern chipmunk, and belongs to the squirrel family. The name Tamias, meaning "treasurer" or "steward," reflects how these animals help disperse plants by collecting and storing seeds and food for winter.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderRodentia
- FamilySciuridae
種 共23種。 花栗鼠属（学名：Tamias），也叫花鼠，是松鼠科地松鼠族的一屬。共有23種，其中西伯利亞花栗鼠生活在亞洲東北部，東部花栗鼠生活在美國和加拿大的東部，其餘的品種均生活在北美洲的西部。 参见 毛丝鼠（龙猫） 奇奇與蒂蒂、鼠來寶 取自“https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=花栗鼠&oldid=42675857” 分类：花栗鼠屬 隐藏分类： 本地相关图片与维基数据不同 含有拉丁語的條目
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Tamias is a genus of chipmunks in the tribe Marmotini of the squirrel family. The genus includes a single living species, the eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus). The genus name Tamias () means "treasurer", "steward", or "housekeeper", which is a reference to the animals' role in plant dispersal through their habit of collecting and storing food for winter use.
thumb|Caged Tamias chipmunk, Tokyo area The genus Tamias was formerly divided into three subgenera that, in sum, included all chipmunk species: Tamias, the eastern chipmunk and other fossil species; Eutamias, of which the Siberian chipmunk (E. sibiricus) is the only living member; and Neotamias, which includes the 23 remaining, mostly western, species. These classifications are subjective, and most taxonomies over the twentieth century have placed the chipmunks in a single genus. However, studies of mitochondrial DNA show that the divergence between each of the three chipmunk groups is comparable to the genetic dissimilarity between Marmota and Spermophilus, so they are now often considered as separate genera.