A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Sciuridae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Uinta ChipmunkTamias (Neotamias) umbrinus J. A. Allen, 1890 | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Eastern ChipmunkTamias (Tamias) striatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Douglas's SquirrelTamiasciurus douglasii (Bachman, 1839) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Red SquirrelTamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erxleben, 1777) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mearns's SquirrelTamiasciurus mearnsi (Townsend, 1897) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Maritime Striped SquirrelTamiops maritimus (Bonhote, 1900) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cambodian Striped SquirrelTamiops rodolphii (Milne-Edwards, 1867) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Swinhoe's Striped SquirrelTamiops swinhoei (Milne-Edwards, 1874) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Complex-Toothed Flying SquirrelTrogopterus xanthipes (Milne-Edwards, 1867) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Piute Ground SquirrelUrocitellus mollis (Kennicott, 1863) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Townsend's Ground SquirrelUrocitellus townsendii (Bachman, 1839) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Long-tailed Ground SquirrelUrocitellus undulatus (Pallas, 1778) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mohave Ground SquirrelXerospermophilus mohavensis (Merriam, 1889) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Perote Ground SquirrelXerospermophilus perotensis (Merriam, 1893) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Spotted Ground SquirrelXerospermophilus spilosoma (Bennett, 1833) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Round-tailed Ground SquirrelXerospermophilus tereticaudus (Baird, 1858) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Striped Ground SquirrelXerus (Euxerus) erythropus (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Damara Ground SquirrelXerus (Geosciurus) princeps (Thomas, 1929) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Unstriped Ground SquirrelXerus (Xerus) rutilus (Cretzschmar, 1828) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.