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References

• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes. 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79
• Christensen, K., T. Whitman. 1993. Impact of insect herbivores on competition between birds and mammals for pinyon pine seeds. Ecology, 74 (8): 2270-2278.
• Gustafson-Ropski, M., S. Ropski, P. Stacey. 1989. Genetic differentiation in a population of rock squirrels (Spermophilus variegatus) in central New Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist, 34 (3): 424-427.
• Johnson, K. 1979. Ecology, behavior, and social organization of the rock squirrel, Spermophilus variegatus . M. S. thesis, Trinity Univ., San Antonio, Texas, 107pp.: Unpublished.
• Original description: Erxleben, J.C.P., 1777.  Systema regni animalis per classes, ordines, genera, species, varietas, cum synonymia et historia animalium.  Classis I, Mammalia, p. 421.  Wegand, Leipzig, 636 pp.
• Owings, D., R. Coss, D. Mckernon, M. Rowe, P. Arrowood. 2001. Snake-directed antipredator behavior of rock squirrels (Spermophilus variegatus): Population differences and snake-species discrimination. Behaviour, 138 (5): 575-595.
• Richard Weigl (2005) Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World. Kleine Senckenberg-Reihe 48: Stuttgart.
• Walsberg, G. 1988. The significance of fur structure for solar heat gain in the rock squirrel. Journal of Mammalogy, 138: 243-257.
• Walsberg, G. E.; Schmidt, C. A. 1989. Seasonal Adjustment of Solar Heat Gain in a Desert Mammal by Altering Coat Properties Independently of Surface Coloration. Journal of Experimental Biology. 142(1): 387-400.
• Walsberg, G., B. Wolf. 1995. Solar heat gain in a desert rodent: unexpected increases with wind speed and implications for estimating the heat balance of free-living animals. Journal of Comparitive Physiology, 165 (4): 306-314.
• Walsberg, G., C. Schmidt. 1989. Seasonal adjustment of solar heat gain in a desert mammal by altering coat properties independently of surface coloration. Journal of Experimental Biology, 142: 387-400.
• Walsberg, G., T. Weaver, B. Wolf. 1997. Seasonal adjustment of solar heat gain independent of coat coloration in a desert mammal. Physiological Zoology, 70 (2): 150-157.
• Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 1993. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207
• Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole. 2000. Common Names of Mammals of the World. xiv + 204