{{Short description|Species of rodent}} {{Speciesbox | image = Long-clawed Ground Squirrel imported from iNaturalist photo 178032900 on 24 March 2024.jpg | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn |author=Molur, S. |year=2016 |title=''Spermophilopsis leptodactylus'' |errata=2017 |article-number=e.T20471A115158585 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T20471A22249018.en |access-date=17 March 2022}}</ref> | display_parents = 3 | genus = Spermophilopsis | parent_authority = Blasius, 1884 | species = leptodactylus | authority = (Lichtenstein, 1823) }}
The '''long-clawed ground squirrel''' ('''''Spermophilopsis leptodactylus''''') is a squirrel species native to grasslands and deserts in northeastern Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, northwestern Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.<ref name=iucn/> It is the only member of the tribe Xerini not native to Africa.
==References== {{Reflist}} *Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. Pp. 754–818 ''in'' Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
==External links== * [http://tolweb.org/Spermophilopsis_leptodactylus/16820 Tree of Life: ''Spermophilopsis leptodactylus'']
{{S. Xerinae nav}} {{Sciuromorpha|state=collapsed}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q199235}}
Category:Mammals described in 1823 Category:Mammals of Afghanistan Category:Mammals of the Middle East Category:Mammals of Central Asia Category:Xerini Category:Taxa named by Hinrich Lichtenstein Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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