Spermophilus columbianus (Ord, 1815) . In Guthrie, A New Geogr., Hist., Coml. Grammar, Philadelphia, 2nd ed., 2:292.
TYPE LOCALITY: U.S.A., Idaho, Idaho Co., between the forks of the Clearwater and Kooskooskie Rivers .
DISTRIBUTION: S. E. British Columbia and W. Alberta (Canada) to N.E. Oregon, C. Idaho, and C. Montana (U.S.A.).
COMMENT: Subgenus Urocitellus; see Gromov et al., 1965: 196. Hall, 1981:381, included Urocitellus in subgenus Spermophilus .
ISIS NUMBER: 5301410002032009001.