#0345 · 🦊 mammals

Round-tailed Ground Squirrel

🇳🇱 Rondstaartgrondeekhoorn ·Xerospermophilus tereticaudus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The round-tailed ground squirrel ( Xerospermophilus tereticaudus ), known as "Ardillón cola redonda" in Spanish, live in the desert of the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. They are called "ground squirrels" because they burrow in loose soil, often under mesquite trees and creosote bushes.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,475iNaturalist 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.
4,475 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Spencer Fullerton Baird in 1858 (168 years ago).