Eutamias

Eutamias is a genus of chipmunk in the subtribe Tamiina of the tribe Marmotini within the squirrel family Sciuridae, named by Trouessart in 1880 with the type species Sciurus sibiricus. It contains a single living species, the Siberian chipmunk (Eutamias sibiricus), found in Siberia and associated parts of Asia; fossil species assigned to the genus have been found in China, Poland and Bulgaria, giving it a temporal range from the early Miocene to the present. The genus has historically often been treated as a subgenus of Tamias, which today refers only to the eastern chipmunk of North America. The related genus Neotamias, covering the chipmunks of western North America, was previously grouped together with Eutamias.