Long-clawed ground squirrel

Long-clawed Ground Squirrel
Temporal range: Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Subfamily: Xerinae
Tribe: Xerini
Genus: Spermophilopsis
Blasius, 1884
Species: S. leptodactylus
Binomial name
Spermophilopsis leptodactylus
(Lichtenstein, 1823)

The Long-clawed Ground Squirrel (Spermophilopsis leptodactylus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is monotypic within the genus Spermophilopsis. It can be found in Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

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