Siberian chipmunk
| Siberian chipmunk | |
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| On the mountain of Seoraksan, South Korea | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Genus: | Eutamias |
| Species: | E. sibiricus
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| Binomial name | |
| Eutamias sibiricus (Laxmann, 1769)
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| Subspecies | |
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| Siberian chipmunk range. | |
| Synonyms | |
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Tamias sibiricus (Laxmann, 1769) | |
The Siberian chipmunk (Eutamias sibiricus), also called common chipmunk, is a species of chipmunk native to northern Asia from central Russia to China, Korea, and HokkaidÅ in northern Japan. It was imported from South Korea and introduced in Europe as a pet in the 1960s.