| Yellow-cheeked chipmunk | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Sciuridae |
| Genus: | Neotamias |
| Species: | N. ochrogenys |
| Binomial name | |
| Neotamias ochrogenys (Merriam, 1897) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Tamias ochrogenys |
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The yellow-cheeked chipmunk (Neotamias ochrogenys) is a species of rodent in the squirrel family Sciuridae. It is endemic to the areas near the coast of northern California in the United States.[1]