Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae Author Robert S. Hoffmann Author Charles G. Anderson text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 419 465 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353130 1-56098-217-9 7353130 Spermophilus franklinii (Sabine, 1822) . Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 13:587 . TYPE LOCALITY: None specified. Restricted by Preble (1908: 165) to Carlton House, Saskatchewan , Canada . DISTRIBUTION: N Great Plains; Alberta , Saskatchewan , and Manitoba ( Canada ), south to Kansas , Illinois , and Indiana ( USA ). COMMENTS: Subgenus Poliocitellus ( Hall, 1981:397 ) . Gromov et al. (1965:155) considered Poliocitellus a subgenus of the genus lctidomys.