Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

Alternative combination: Citellus finlayensis

Full reference: W. S. Strain. 1966. Blancan mammalian fauna and Pleistocene formations, Hudspeth County, Texas. Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 10:1-55

Belongs to Spermophilus according to W. W. Korth 1994

See also Kurten and Anderson 1980, Shotwell 1968 and Strain 1966

Sister taxa: Spermophilus armatus, Spermophilus boothi, Spermophilus cochisei, Spermophilus columbianus, Spermophilus cragini, Spermophilus cyanocittus, Spermophilus dotti, Spermophilus fricki, Spermophilus howelli, Spermophilus jerae, Spermophilus johnstoni, Spermophilus lorisrusselli, Spermophilus matachicensis, Spermophilus matthewi, Spermophilus mcgheei, Spermophilus mckayensis, Spermophilus meadensis, Spermophilus meltoni, Spermophilus primitivus, Spermophilus rexroadensis, Spermophilus russelli, Spermophilus shotwelli, Spermophilus spilosoma, Spermophilus superciliosus, Spermophilus taylori, Spermophilus tridecemlineatus, Spermophilus tuitus, Spermophilus wellingtonensis, Spermophilus wilsoni, Citellus ridgwayi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Hudspeth (TMM 40240), which is in a Blancan terrestrial horizon in the Fort Hancock Formation of Texas

Ecology: semifossorial granivore-frugivore

Distribution: found only at Hudspeth (TMM 40240)

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