Spermophilus parryii Richardson 1825

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 754-818 : 809

Spermophilus parryii Richardson 1825

Spermophilus parryii Richardson 1825 , in: Parry, Voy. discovery Northwest Passage, Vol. 6- app. second voy.: 316.

Type Locality: Restricted by Preble (1902:46) to "Five Hawser Bay, Lyon Inlet, Melville Peninsula, [Hudson Bay, Keewatin District, Northwest Territories], Canada." .

Vernacular Names: Arctic Ground Squirrel.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Spermophilus parryii subsp. parryii Richardson 1825

Subspecies Spermophilus parryii subsp. ablusus Osgood 1903

Subspecies Spermophilus parryii subsp. kennicottii Ross 1861

Subspecies Spermophilus parryii subsp. kodiacensis J. A. Allen 1874

Subspecies Spermophilus parryii subsp. leucostictus Brandt 1844

Subspecies Spermophilus parryii subsp. lyratus Hall and Gilmore 1932

Subspecies Spermophilus parryii subsp. nebulicola Osgood 1903

Subspecies Spermophilus parryii subsp. osgoodi Merriam 1900

Subspecies Spermophilus parryii subsp. plesius Osgood 1900

Subspecies Spermophilus parryii subsp. stejnegeri J. A. Allen 1903

Distribution: NW Canada; Alaska ( USA); NE Yakutia, Anadyrsk, Krai, and Chukotka ( Russia).

Discussion: Subgenus Urocitellus according to Gromov et al. (1965:184), but see Hall (1981:381) who 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) provided evidence of specific distinctness. Reviewed by Chernyavskii (1972), Nadler and Hoffmann (1977), Serdyuk (1979) (Palearctic), and Pearson (1981) (Nearctic). Nikol'skii and Wallschläger (1982) noted differences in alarm calls between Siberian and Alaskan populations.