Urocitellus parryu

• Main Authors: Don E. Wilson, Thomas E. Lacher, Jr, Russell A. Mittermeier
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Lynx Edicions 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Sciuridae; Urocitellus; Urocitellus parryu; Arctic; Nunavut; Yukon; Northwest Territories; Hudson Bay; Canada; Hudson; Kamchatka Peninsula; Buff; Lyon Inlet; Five Hawser Bay; Melville Peninsula; Arctic ground squirrel; Arctique*; Arktis; Arktis*; artico; Kamchatka; Keewatin; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6840654; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6840654

199. Arctic Ground Squirrel Urocitellus parryu French: Spermophile arctique / German: Arktis-Ziesel / Spanish: Ardilla terrestre del Artico Taxonomy. Arctomys parryii Richardson, 1825, no type locality given. Restricted by E. A. Preble in 1902 to “ Five Hawser Bay, Lyon Inlet, Melville Peninsula, [Hudson Bay, Keewatin District, Northwest Territories,| Canada.” Ten subspecies are recognized. Subspecies and Distribution. U.p.parryiRichardson,1825—extremeNEAlaska(USA)andNcoastofYukonandtheNorthwestTerritories(Canada). U.p.ablususOsgood,1903—W&SWcoastofAlaska(USA). U.p.kennicottiiRoss,1861—NWcoastofAlaska(USA). U.p.kodiacensisJ.A.Allen,1874—KodiakIinSWAlaska(USA). U.p.leucostictusBrandt,1844—NESiberia(Russia). U.p.lyratusHall&Gilmore,1932—St.LawrenceI,Alaska(USA). U.p.nebulicolaOsgood,1903—ShumaginIsofSWAlaska(USA). U.p.osgoodiMerriam,1900—SoftheBrooksRangeinCAlaska(USA). U.p.plesiusOsgood,1900—SEAlaska(USA),Yukon,NorthwestTerritories,Nunavut,andNBritishColumbia(Canada). U. p. stejnegeriJ. A. Allen, 1903 — Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia). Descriptive notes. Head-body mean 257-1 mm (males) and 266-1 mm (females), tail mean 87-7 mm (males) and 109-8 mm (females); weight mean 673 g (males) and 524-3 g (females). The Arctic Ground Squirrel has a reddish brown to cinnamon to fuscous dorsal pelage, with white to buff spots. Head is tawnier with a white to cream ring around eyelids. Sides, feet, and legs are buff to tawny to cinnamon, becoming gray in winter. Ventral pelage is white to straw yellow to cinnamon buff. Tail is ocherous tawny, cinnamon, or cinnamon buff, grizzled with black in upper side, and tawny to russet ventrally. Dorsum of nominate parryii is yellowish brown and dusky, with gray spots. Top of head and sides of neck are a rich reddish brown to yellowish brown. Terminal part oftail is black. Subspecies ablusus has a brown and weakly spotted dorsum. Subspecies kennicottii is a pale form. Subspecies kodiacensis is heavily spotted with smallish flecks that are sometimes faint. Subspecies leucostictus has ...