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🐾Siberian chipmunk

Tamias sibiricus (Laxmann, 1769)

The Siberian chipmunk, also called common chipmunk, is a species of chipmunk native to northern Asia from central Russia to China, Korea, and Hokkaidō in northern Japan. It was imported from South Korea and introduced in Europe as a pet in the 1960s.

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Also called
Tamias sibiricus, asian chipmunk, siberian chipmunk
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.09 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
9.6 years
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Everything we know about the Siberian chipmunk

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.09 kg
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Maximum lifespan
9.6 years
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Gestation
35 days
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Litter size
about 5
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Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familySciuridae
  6. ›genusTamias
  7. ›speciesTamias sibiricus
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  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. tribeMarmotini
  4. genusTamias
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. orderRodents · Rodentia
  12. suborderSciuromorpha
  13. familySciuridae
  14. tribeMarmotini
  15. genusTamias
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花鼠 (zh), Burunduk (de), Tamias sibiricus (fr), Siberische grondeekhoorn (nl), Burunduk syberyjski (pl), 시베리아다람쥐 (ko) … and 22 more languages
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