Genus
Otospermophilus (North american rock squirrels)
Otospermophilus beecheyi douglasii. Photo: (c) Nature Ali, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
Otospermophilus is a genus of ground squirrels in the family Sciuridae, containing three species. Otospermophilus was formerly placed in the large ground squirrel genus Spermophilus, as a subgenus or species group. Since DNA sequencing of the cytochrome b gene has shown Spermophilus to be paraphyletic to the prairie dogs and marmots, it is now separated, along with six other genera.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Class: Mammalia (Mammals)
- Subclass: Theria (Therians)
- Infraclass: Placentalia (Placental mammals)
- Superorder: Euarchontoglires (Primates, rodents, and allies)
- Order: Rodentia (Rodents)
- Suborder: Sciuromorpha (Squirrels, dormice, and mountain beavers)
- Family: Sciuridae (Squirrels)
- Subfamily: Xerinae (Ground and african tree squirrels)
- Tribe: Marmotini (Holarctic ground squirrels)
- Genus: Otospermophilus (North american rock squirrels)
- Tribe: Marmotini (Holarctic ground squirrels)
- Subfamily: Xerinae (Ground and african tree squirrels)
- Family: Sciuridae (Squirrels)
- Suborder: Sciuromorpha (Squirrels, dormice, and mountain beavers)
- Order: Rodentia (Rodents)
- Superorder: Euarchontoglires (Primates, rodents, and allies)
- Infraclass: Placentalia (Placental mammals)
- Subclass: Theria (Therians)
- Class: Mammalia (Mammals)
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
- Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
