Cliff chipmunk: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the cliff chipmunk lives – recorded in 2 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Neotamias dorsalis
Group	Squirrels, chipmunks & marmots
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	2 countries
Continents	North America
Class	Mammal
Order	Rodentia
Family	Sciuridae

Where does the cliff chipmunk live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the cliff chipmunk in 2 countries and territories across North America.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the cliff chipmunk endangered?

The cliff chipmunk’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the cliff chipmunk?

The cliff chipmunk (Neotamias dorsalis) is a mammal in the order Rodentia and the family Sciuridae, genus Neotamias. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the cliff chipmunk

The cliff chipmunk (Neotamias dorsalis) is a small, bushy-tailed squirrel that typically lives along cliff walls or boulder fields bordering Pinyon-juniper woodlands in the Western United States and Mexico (commonly spotted in northern Arizona to Colorado). Cliff chipmunks are very agile, and can often be seen scaling steep cliff walls. Cliff chipmunks do not amass body fat as the more common ground squirrel does. They create caches of food which they frequent during the cold winter months.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Cliff chipmunk (revision 1373742441), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q24662786 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).