Long-clawed ground squirrel

The long-clawed ground squirrel (Spermophilopsis leptodactylus) is a squirrel species native to grasslands and deserts in northeastern Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, northwestern Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.^[1] It is the only member of the tribe Xerini not native to Africa.

Long-clawed ground squirrel
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Subfamily:	Xerinae
Tribe:	Xerini
Genus:	Spermophilopsis Blasius, 1884
Species:	S. leptodactylus
Binomial name
Spermophilopsis leptodactylus (Lichtenstein, 1823)