(Spermophilus citellus)
The European ground squirrel (Spermophilus citellus),also known as the European souslik,is a species from the squirrel family,Sciuridae.It and the speckled ground squirrel (Spermophilus suslicus) are the only European representatives of the genus Spermophilus.Like all squirrels,it is a member of the rodent order.It is to be found throughout eastern Europe from southern Ukraine,to Asia Minor,Austria,the Czech Republic,Slovakia,Serbia,Greece,Romania,Bulgaria,Macedonia and north as far as Poland but the range is divided in two parts by the Carpathian Mountains.