| Allen's chipmunk | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Genus: | Neotamias |
| Species: | N. senex |
| Binomial name | |
| Neotamias senex (J. A. Allen, 1890) |
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| Subspecies | |
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N. s. pacifica (Sutton & Patterson, 2000) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Tamias senex J. A. Allen, 1890 |
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Allen's chipmunk (Neotamias senex) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to the United States. The main populations are found in California, specifically the humid forests of the mountainous areas of Northern California including the Northern Coastal Range of California, the Trinity Alps, the Siskiyou Mountains, and the Sierra Nevada as far south as Fresno. They stretch into Oregon's Warner Mountains, and reach into the Nevada side only around the Tahoe basin. It is also called the Shadow Chipmunk by Jameson & Peeters (1988) and Thorington and Hoffman (2005).