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Genus CITELLUS 70 Oken (ground-squirrels) 



1816. Citellus Oken, Okens Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte, pt. 3 (Zoologie), 

 sect. 2, p. 842. (Type, Mus citellus Linnaeus.) 



1817. Anisonyx Rafinesque, Amer. Monthly Mag., vol. 2, No. 1, p. 45, Novem- 

 ber 1817. (Not of Latreille, 1807. Type, Anisonyx brachiura Rafi- 

 inesque = Arctomys columbianus Ord.) 



1825. Spermophilus F. Cuvier, Des dents des mammiferes, . . . , p. 255, Table 

 method. (Type, Mus citellus Linnaeus.) 



Subgenus CITELLUS Oken 



loivnsendii — group 

 Citellus townsendii townsendii (Bachman) * 



1839. Spermophilus townsendii Bachman, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



vol. 8, p. 61. (See Audubon and Bachman, The viviparous quadrupeds of 



North America, vol. 3, p. 226, 1853; and T. H. Scheffer, Journ. Mamm., vol. 



27, No. 4, p. 395, Nov. 25, 1946.) 



1891. Spermophilus townsendi Merriam, North Amer. Fauna No. 5, p. 36, 



July 30, 1891. 

 1898. Spermophilus mollis yakimensis Merriamf, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 



vol. 12, p. 70, Mar. 24, 1898. (Mabton, Yakima County, Wash.) 

 1904. [Citellus] townsendi Trouessart, Catalogus Mammalium . . . , suppl., 



fasc. 2, p. 338. 

 Type Locality. — "On the Columbia River, about 300 miles above its mouth"; 

 therefore, near the site of the present town of Wallula, Walla Walla County, 

 Wash. Range. — South-central Washington, between Columbia River and Cas- 

 cade Range, north to Ellensburg, Kittitas County. Zonal range, Upper Sonoran. 



Citellus townsendii mollis (Kennicott) f* 



1863. Spermophilus mollis Kennicott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 



15, p. 157. 

 1884. Spermophilus mollis True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 



29), p. 594, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1898. Spermophilus mollis stephensi Merriamf, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing- 

 ton, vol. 12, p. 69, Mar. 24, 1898. (Queen Station, near head of Owens 



Valley, Mineral County, Nev.) 

 1904. [Citellus] mollis Trouessart, Catalogus Mammalium . . . , suppl., 



fasc. 2, p. 339. 

 1913. Citellus leurodon Merriamf, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 26, p. 136, 



May 21, 1913. (Murphy, in hills west of Snake River, Owyhee County, 



Idaho.) 

 1913. Citellus mollis washoensis Merriamf, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 



26, p. 138, May 21, 1913. (Carson Valley, Douglas County, Nev.) 

 1938. Citellus townsendii mollis A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna, No. 56 



(April), p. 63, May 18, 1938. 

 Type Locality. — Camp Floyd, near Fairfield, Utah County, Utah. Range. — 

 Western Utah, Idaho south and east of Snake River from near Murphy east at 



70 Names published by Oken in 1816 regarded as non-Linnaean and not available by 

 Hershkovitz, Journ. Mamm., vol. 30, No. 3, p. 295, Aug. 17, 1949. 

 Revised by A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 56 (April), pp. 53-216, May 18, 1938. 



