Citellus

Typical mountain steppe mammals include Altai pika Ochotona alpina, arctic ground squirrel Citellus undulatus and Siberian chipmunk Tamias sibiricus.

Golden Mountains of Altai, Russian Federation 2009

Rodents characteristic of the Basin include Meriones unguiculatus, Dipus sagitta, Citellus erithrogenus, and Phodopus roborovskii.

Great Lakes Basin desert steppe 2007

Squirrel (Citellus sp.) — Bones of at least one species of ground squirrel.

Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico : 1937

Golden Ground-squirrel (_Citellus lateralis cinerascens_)

Wild Animals at Home Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

First, largest, and least common, is the Big Striped Ground-squirrel, the Golden Ground-squirrel or Say's Ground-squirrel, called scientifically _Citellus lateralis cinerascens_.

Wild Animals at Home Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

The typical fauna of mammals in the vast Kazakhstan steppes includes the numerous rodents such as ground squirrels (Citellus), hamsters (Cricetus, Cricetulus, Podopus), voles (Microtus), birch mice (Sicista), lemmings (Lagurus), marmots (Marmota bobac); and lagomorphs such as pikas (Ochotona) and hares (Lepus).

Kazakh steppe 2008

There is a high diversity of rodents including ground squirrels (Citellus rufescens, C. erythrogenus), hamster (Cricetus cricetus), jerboa (Allactaga saltator), voles (Microtus oeconomus, Clethrionomys rutilus), and steppe lemming (Eremiomys lagurus).

Kazakh forest steppe 2007