Eutamias
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| Eutamias Temporal range: Early Miocene to present | |
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| Siberian chipmunk (Eutamias sibiricus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Subtribe: | Tamiina |
| Genus: | Eutamias Trouessart, 1880 |
| Type species | |
| Sciurus striatus asiaticus | |
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Eutamias is a genus of chipmunks within the tribe Marmotini of the squirrel family. It includes a single living species, the Siberian chipmunk (Eutamias sibiricus). The genus is often treated as a subgenus of Tamias, which is now restricted to the eastern chipmunk of North America.[1] Neotamias, which now includes the western North American chipmunks, has also been included in Eutamias.[2]
In addition to the Siberian chipmunk, several fossil species have been assigned to this genus:
- †Eutamias ertemtensis Qiu, 1991 – late Miocene to Pliocene of China[3]
- †Eutamias lishanensis Qiu et al., 2008 – late Miocene of China[4]
- †Eutamias orlovi Sulimski, 1964 – Pliocene of Poland and Bulgaria[5]
- †Eutamias sihongensis Qiu and Long, 1986 – early Miocene of China;[6] subsequently made the type species of a separate genus Heterotamias.[7]
- †Eutamias wimani (Young, 1927) – Pleistocene of China[8]
