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Utah Prairie Dog

Cynomys parvidens

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) aldeboro, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Utah.

Utah	434
United States	407
Nevada	1

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Chordates · Chordata
Class	Mammals · Mammalia
Order	Rodents · Rodentia
Family	Squirrels · Sciuridae
Genus	Prairie Dogs · Cynomys

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
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