# Long-clawed ground squirrel

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{{Short description|Species of rodent}}
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| 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](/source/August_Wilhelm_Heinrich_Blasius), 1884
| species = leptodactylus
| authority = ([Lichtenstein](/source/Hinrich_Lichtenstein), 1823)
}}

The '''long-clawed ground squirrel''' ('''''Spermophilopsis leptodactylus''''') is a [squirrel](/source/Sciuridae) [species](/source/species) native to [grassland](/source/grassland)s and [desert](/source/desert)s in northeastern [Iran](/source/Iran), [Tajikistan](/source/Tajikistan), [Turkmenistan](/source/Turkmenistan), northwestern [Afghanistan](/source/Afghanistan), [Uzbekistan](/source/Uzbekistan) and [Kazakhstan](/source/Kazakhstan).<ref name=iucn/> It is the only member of the tribe [Xerini](/source/Xerini) not native to [Africa](/source/Africa).

==References==
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*Thorington, R. W. Jr. and R. S. Hoffman. 2005. Family Sciuridae. Pp.&nbsp;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'']

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{{Sciuromorpha|state=collapsed}}
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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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