#0392 · 🦊 mammals

Uinta Chipmunk

🇳🇱 Uintachipmunk ·Neotamias umbrinus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Alec Cowles · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Paul Donahue · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © sea-kangaroo · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © bumblenet · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Washington County, UT, USA:© David Bell · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Comté de Washington, Utah, États-Unis:© Romain Boisseau · CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Weber County, UT, USA:© Scott Baxter · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Salt Lake County, UT, USA:© Connie Misket · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Summit County, UT, USA:© floraluprising · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Garfield County, UT, USA:© Andrea Carpio · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Uinta chipmunk or hidden forest chipmunk ( Neotamias umbrinus ), is a species of chipmunk in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to the United States. Formerly known as Tamias umbrinus , phylogenetic studies have shown it to be sufficiently distinct from the eastern chipmunk as to be placed in a separate genus, Neotamias . The same studies have also suggested that Palmer's chipmunk may actually be a subspecies of Uinta chipmunk, although the two are still generally regarded...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,337iNaturalist 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).