Crater chipmunk

Crater chipmunk
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Genus:	Neotamias
Species:	N. cratericus
Binomial name
	Neotamias cratericus; (Blossom, 1937)

The crater chipmunk (Neotamias cratericus) is a species of chipmunk native to the coniferous forests of southern Idaho, north of the Snake River Plain. It was formerly considered a subspecies of Neotamias amoenus.^[1] It is named after the Craters of the Moon National Monument, where the holotype of this species was first collected.

Description

This species averages around 21 cm (8.3 inches) long, with the tail being 9.7 cm (3.8 inches) of this length. This species resembles N. amoenus, but is overall slightly darker.^[2]

References

^ Herrera, Nathanael D.; Bell, Kayce C.; Callahan, Colin M.; Nordquist, Erin; Sarver, Brice A. J.; Sullivan, Jack; Demboski, John R.; Good, Jeffrey M. (2 July 2022). "Genomic resolution of cryptic species diversity in chipmunks". Evolution. 76 (9): 2004–2019. doi:10.1111/evo.14546. PMID 35778920.
^ Blossom, Philip (21 December 1937). "Description of a race of chipmunk from south central Idaho". Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan. 366: 2.

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[cryptic_species-1] Herrera, Nathanael D.; Bell, Kayce C.; Callahan, Colin M.; Nordquist, Erin; Sarver, Brice A. J.; Sullivan, Jack; Demboski, John R.; Good, Jeffrey M. (2 July 2022). "Genomic resolution of cryptic species diversity in chipmunks". Evolution. 76 (9): 2004–2019. doi:10.1111/evo.14546. PMID 35778920.

[2] Blossom, Philip (21 December 1937). "Description of a race of chipmunk from south central Idaho". Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan. 366: 2.

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