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Eutamias - chipmunks of western America and Asia

mammal genus - a genus of mammals

family Sciuridae, Sciuridae - a mammal family of true squirrels including: ground squirrels; marmots; chipmunks; flying squirrels; spermophiles

chipmunk - a burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia; has cheek pouches and a light and dark stripe running down the body

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Coccidia (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from sciurid rodents (Eutamias, Sciurus, Tamiasciurus spp.) from the western United States and northern Mexico with descriptions of two new species.

Eimeria vilasi (apicomplexa: eimeriidae) from the roundtailed ground squirrel (xerospermophilus tereticaudus)

Altitudinal zonation of chipmunks (Eutamias): interspecific aggression.

Habitat characteristics within a zone of separation between the ranges of two species of pocket gophers

sp., Two New Parasitic Nematodes from Eutamias striatus lysteri (Richardson).

Case report of new rictularia species from stray dog in Iran

We also captured four Merriam's chipmunks (Eutamias merriami), four California ground squirrels (Otospermophilus beecheyi), one big-eared woodrat (Neotoma macrotis) and one brush mouse (Peromyscus boylii).

Small mammal use of the burn perimeter following a chaparral wildfire in southern California

Occassionally, other species such as Neotoma fuscipes, Sylvilagus spp., Eutamias townsendi, Scapanus townsendi, Rattus norvegicus, and Zapus trinotatus were taken.

Diet of the Barn Owl in Northeast and Northwest Oregon

Three new chipmunks of the genus Eutamias from Nevada: Journal of Mammalogy, 12:298-301.

Extension of the cliff chipmunk (Neotamias dorsalis) range in Idaho

triton, Eutamias sibiricus, Meriones lybicus, and Clethrionomys rufocanus, were positive for F.

Francisella tularensis in rodents, China

The third discriminant function increased with the incidence of Townsend's chipmunks (Eutamias townsendii), and decreased with the incidence of black bears (Ursus americanus) (standardized coefficients [less than]0.53 and -0.45, respectively; all other coefficients [less than]0.35; eigenvalue and percentage of overall dispersion = 0.18 and 4%).

ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY OF MAMMAL COMMUNITIES IN A FRAGMENTED TEMPERATE RAIN FOREST

truei), and one (2%) of 48 chipmunks (Eutamias dorsalis).

Update: outbreak of hantavirus infection - southwestern United States, 1993

The numerous boreal species at Fowlkes Cave include Sorex vagrans (vagrant shrew), Sorex palustris (water shrew), Eutamias cinereicollis (gray-collared chipmunk), and Marmota flaviventris (yellow-bellied marmot).

Mammalian paleofaunas of central Texas from the late Wisconsinan glacial period to the latest Holocene