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Sciurus striatus Linnaeus, 1758 The eastern chipmunk ( Tamias striatus ) is a chipmunk species found in eastern North America . It is the only living member of the genus Tamias .
Chipmunks are classified as four genera: Tamias, of which the eastern chipmunk (T. striatus) is the only living member; Eutamias, of which the Siberian chipmunk (E. sibiricus) is the only living member; Nototamias, which consists of three extinct species, and Neotamias, which includes the 23 remaining, mostly western North American, species.
Tamias striatus Tamias is a genus of chipmunks in the tribe Marmotini of the squirrel family. The genus includes a single living species, the eastern chipmunk ( Tamias striatus ). [ 1 ]
Only the eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus) lives in the Southeast. “While they aren’t known to vector, or transmit, serious diseases, they can have fleas and ticks, ...
The Ohio chipmunk (Tamias striatus ohioensis), also known as the Ohioan chipmunk, or the Ohio eastern chipmunk, is a subspecies of the eastern chipmunk that is native to parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, and Ohio, with some populations potentially present in far north-eastern to western Pennsylvania, and very rarely into West Virginia. [1]
Subspecies: Tamias striatus lysteri (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, most of Massachusetts, northeastern Connecticut, and northern Rhode Island) and Tamias striatus fisheri (extreme southern Massachusetts, southern and central Connecticut, southern Rhode Island) according to Hall (1981).
Tamias striatus doorsiensis is a subspecies of the eastern chipmunk that is only found in Door, Kewaunee, northeastern Brown, and possibly Manitowoc counties in northeastern Wisconsin. [1] It was described by C. A. Long in 1971.
Tamias aristus; Tamias striatus doorsiensis; This page was last edited on 3 November 2018, at 13:00 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...