Xerospermophilus tereticaudus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Family
- Sciuridae
- Genus
- Xerospermophilus
- Species
- Xerospermophilus tereticaudus
- Scientific Name
- Xerospermophilus tereticaudus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Round-tailed ground squirrel
The round-tailed ground squirrel (Xerospermophilus tereticaudus), known as "Ardillón cola redonda" in Spanish, live in the desert of the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. They are called "ground squirrels" because they burrow in loose soil, often under mesquite trees and creosote bushes.
...Xerospermophilus tereticaudus in languages:
- Czech
- sysel hladkoocasý
- English
- Round-tailed Ground Squirrel
- Finnish
- pyöröhäntäsiiseli
- French
- Spermophile à queue ronde
- French
- Écureuil terrestre à queue ronde
- German
- Rundschwanzziesel
- Modern Greek
- Στρογγυλόουρος Λαγόγυρος
- Polish
- karłosuseł okrągłoogonowy
- Portuguese
- Esquilo-terrestre-de-cauda-redonda
- Russian
- Голохвостый суслик
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