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Snake River Plains Ground Squirrel
Urocitellus idahoensis
The Snake River Plains ground squirrel (Urocitellus idahoensis) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to Idaho in the western United States. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the Piute ground squirrel, before being identified as a distinct species on the basis of genetic differences in 2025.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1618940.