Talk:Spermophilus

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Vernacular name for Spermophilus is Spermophilus?
This doesn't seem right. Ground squirrels seems pretty good to me. It includes most of the things that English speakers think are ground squirrels and it excludes things like prairie dogs, marmots and chipmunks which English speakers (if I'm a good example) don't think of as ground squirrels.

But even if you don't think ground squirrels is right Spermophilus doesn't exactly measure up to vernacular. I just don't recall anybody saying something like: "Oh look at that cute little sphermophilus over there".

I'd change it but my sense of it is that wikispecies people know a lot more about these things than I do and maybe you had your reasons.Davefoc 08:13, 30 January 2009 (UTC)