N. adocetus N. annulatus Notocitellus is a genus of ground squirrels, containing two species from Mexico.

These species are the tropical ground squirrel (Notocitellus adocetus), and the ring-tailed ground squirrel (N. annulatus).

Notocitellus was formerly placed in the large ground squirrel genus Spermophilus, as a subgenus or species group.

Since DNA sequencing of the cytochrome b gene has shown Spermophilus to be paraphyletic to the marmots, antelope squirrels, and prairie dogs,[2] it is now separated, along with six other genera.

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