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Mount Ellen chipmunk

The Mount Ellen chipmunk, or the Mount Ellen Uinta chipmunk, also spelt as the Mt. Ellen chipmunk, is a rare subspecies of the Uinta chipmunk that is endemic to Mt. Ellen, Henry Mountains, Garfield County, Utah. Not many threats persist for the subspecies, so the current conservation status refers to its limitedness in the region. It is listed as "Critically Imperiled" by NatureServe because of its limited natural range.

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Mount Ellen chipmunk
Critically Imperiled
Critically Imperiled (NatureServe)1
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Neotamias
Species:
N. umbrinus
Subspecies:
N. u. sedulus
Trinomial name
Neotamias umbrinus sedulus
(White, 1953)

The Mount Ellen chipmunk (Neotamias umbrinus sedulus), or the Mount Ellen Uinta chipmunk, also spelt as the Mt. Ellen chipmunk, is a rare subspecies of the Uinta chipmunk that is endemic to Mt. Ellen, Henry Mountains, Garfield County, Utah. Not many threats persist for the subspecies, so the current conservation status refers to its limitedness in the region. It is listed as "Critically Imperiled" by NatureServe because of its limited natural range.123

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  1. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
  2. "Tamias umbrinus subsp. sedulus". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
  3. "Tamias umbrinus sedulus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.