Spermophilus parryii (Richardson, 1825) . In Parry, 1825 (1827), appendix to Parry's J. of Second Voy., p. 316.

TYPE LOCALITY: Canada, Hudson Bay, Melville Peninsula, Lyon Inlet, Five Hawser Bay .

DISTRIBUTION: N.W. Canada; Alaska (U.S.A.); N. E. Yakutia, Anadyrsk. Krai, and Chukotka (U.S. S. R.).

COMMENT: Subgenus Urocitellus; see Gromov et al., 1965:184. Hall, 1981:381, included Urocitellus in subgenus Spermophilus . Regarded by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:511, and Hall and Kelson, 1959:343, as a synonym of undulatus . Gromov et al., 1965: 184, and Nadler et al., 1974, Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 47A:663-681, provided evidence of specific distinctness. Reviewed by Chernyavskii, 1972, Trud. Mosk. Soc. Nat., 48: 199-214, Serdyuk, 1979, Zool. Zh., 58: 1692-1702, (Palearctic), and Pearson, 1981, Geographic and intraspecific cranial variation in North American arctic ground squirrels, M.A. Thesis, Univ. Kansas, Lawrence, 96 pp. (Nearctic).

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410002032018001.