Tamias minimus
Bachman, 1839 · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Tamias minimus's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation11 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility3 154 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI78 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics25 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
Tree of SexTree of Sex Consortiumgenome & karyotype↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
The least chipmunk (Neotamias minimus) is the smallest species of chipmunk and the most widespread in North America.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology5
Life cycle & reproduction8
Diet & foraging4
Habitat & environment2
Physiology & chemistry4
Other traits5
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Tamias minimus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
The complete instruction manual Tamias minimus carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
2n 384×GoaT · Animal Chromosome Counts Database · GoaT · Tree of Sex Database · TreeOfSex · vert
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type3 154 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions19 of 43 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Ann Arbor, US | 552 |
| München, DE | 444 |
| Denver, US | 342 |
| University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrateslocation not on record | 251 |
| Fort Hays State University, Sternberg Museumlocation not on record | 165 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 162 |
| Tacoma, US | 162 |
| Seattle, US | 140 |
| Washington State University, Charles R. Conner Museumlocation not on record | 111 |
| New Haven, US | 85 |
| Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratorylocation not on record | 82 |
| Philip L. Wright Zoological Museumlocation not on record | 70 |
| Universidad Católica de Manizaleslocation not on record | 65 |
| University of North Carolina at Greensborolocation not on record | 47 |
| ASNHClocation not on record | 46 |
| EL PASO, US | 45 |
| Zacatecas, MX | 42 |
| Ithaca, US | 34 |
| Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record | 33 |
| Chicago, US | 31 |
| Louisiana State University, Museum of Zoologylocation not on record | 30 |
| Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record | 19 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 17 |
| University of Wisconsin-Stevens Pointlocation not on record | 15 |
| Saint John, CA | 15 |
| NMUlocation not on record | 15 |
| New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciencelocation not on record | 14 |
| Berkeley, US | 12 |
| University of Nevada, Museum of Biologylocation not on record | 8 |
| Science Museum of Minnesotalocation not on record | 7 |
| Bonn, DE | 6 |
| Indiana State Universitylocation not on record | 5 |
| Hardin-Simmons Universitylocation not on record | 5 |
| Los Angeles, US | 4 |
| North Carolina Museum of Natural Scienceslocation not on record | 4 |
| Washington, US | 3 |
| California State University, Long Beachlocation not on record | 2 |
| Mongolian Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record | 1 |
| Chicago, US | 1 |
| San Diego, US | 1 |
| Albany, US | 1 |
| Helsinki, FI | 1 |
Where the DNA of Tamias minimus was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.