#0137 · 🦊 mammals

Barbary Ground Squirrel

🇳🇱 Barbarijse Grondeekhoorn ·Atlantoxerus getulus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Ashwin Viswanathan · CC BY 4.0
2. © Joachim S. Müller · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Beate & Heinz Beyerlein · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © chris-hannah · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Gonzalo Mucientes Sandoval · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © tvp · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © kd0137 · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Thomas Brooks · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
9. © Archiverde · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Thomas Schreiter · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Barbary ground squirrel ( Atlantoxerus getulus ) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is monotypic within the genus Atlantoxerus . It is endemic to Western Sahara, Algeria and Morocco and has been introduced into the Canary Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, temperate grassland and rocky areas where it lives colonially in burrows. It was first described by Linnaeus in 1758.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,666iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
1,666 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).