colubrina vs Little Ground Squirrel

Echium vulgare compared with Spermophilus pygmaeus

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	colubrina	Little Ground Squirrel
Kingdom	Plantae (plantas)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (cordados)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (mamíferos)
Order	Boraginales (Boraginales)	Rodentia (Roedores)
Family	Boraginaceae	Sciuridae (Squirrels)
Genus	Echium	Spermophilus
Species	Echium vulgare	Spermophilus pygmaeus

Conservation Status

colubrina

LC — Least Concern

Little Ground Squirrel

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	colubrina	Little Ground Squirrel
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

colubrina

Habitat

Inhabits deserts and xeric shrublands within the Palearctic biogeographic realm.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (Lesotho, South Africa), Asia (India, Japan, Uzbekistan), Europe (11 countries), North America (Canada, Mexico, United States), Oceania and the Pacific (Australia, New Zealand), and South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile).

Little Ground Squirrel

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Russia and Ukraine.

colubrina

The Blue Devil (Echium vulgare) is a species in the genus Echium. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Inhabits deserts and xeric shrublands within the Palearctic biogeographic realm.