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{{Short description|Species of rodent}} {{Speciesbox | image = Richardson's-Szmurlo.jpg | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Cassola, F. |date=2016 |title=''Urocitellus richardsonii'' |volume=2016 |page=e.T42561A22262546 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T42561A22262546.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref> | genus = Urocitellus | species = richardsonii | authority = ([[Sabine (taxonomist)|Sabine]], 1822) | synonyms = ''Spermophilus richardsonii'' | range_map = Urocitellus richardsonii map.svg }} '''Richardson's ground squirrel''' ('''''Urocitellus richardsonii'''''), also known as the '''dakrat''' or '''flickertail''', is a [[North America]]n [[ground squirrel]] in the genus ''[[Urocitellus]]''. Like a number of other ground squirrels, they are sometimes called '''prairie dogs''' or '''gophers''', though the latter name belongs more strictly to the [[pocket gopher]]s of family [[Geomyidae]], and the former to members of the genus ''[[Cynomys]]''.
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