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Sciurus vulgaris Linnaeus 1758

Description

Sciurus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:63.

TYPE LOCALITY: "in Europae arboribus." Restricted by Thomas (1911«: 148) to Uppsala, Sweden.

DISTRIBUTION: Forested regions of Palearctic, from Iberia and Great Britain east to Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin Isl (Russia); south to Mediterranean and Black Seas, N Mongolia, Korea, and NE China.

SYNONYMS: albonotatus Billberg, 1827; albus Billberg, 1827; alpinus Desmarest, 1822; altaicus Serebrennikov, 1928; ameliae Cabrera, 1924; anadyrensis Ognev, 1929; arcticus Trouessart, 1906; argenteus Kerr, 1792; baeticus Cabrera, 1905; balcanicus Heinrich, 1936; bashkiricus Ognev, 1935; brunnea Altum, 1876; chiliensis Sowerby, 1921; cinerea Hermann, 1804; coreae Sowerby, 1921; coreanus Kishida, 1924; croaticus Wettstein, 1927; dulkeiti Ognev, 1929; europaeus Gray, 1843; exalbidus Pallas, 1778; fedjushini Ognev, 1935; formosovi Ognev, 1935; fuscoater Altum, 1876; fusconigricans Dwigubski, 1804; fuscorubens Dwigubski, 1804; golzmajeri Smirnov, 1960; gotthardi Fatio, 1905; graeca Altum, 1876; hoffmanni Valverde, 1968; infuscatus Cabrera, 1905; istrandjae Heinrich, 1936; italicus Bonaparte, 1838; jacutensis Ognev, 1929; jenissejensis Ognev, 1935; kalbinensis Selevin, 1924; kessleri Migulin, 1928; leucourus Kerr, 1792; lilaeus Miller, 1907; mantchuricus Thomas, 1909; martensi Matschie, 1901; meridionalis Lucifero, 1907; nadymensis Serebrennikov, 1928; niger Billberg, 1827; nigrescens Altum, 1876; numantius Miller, 1907; ognevi Migulin, 1928; orientis Thomas, 1906; rhodopensis Heinrich, 1936; rufus Kerr, 1792; rupestris Thomas, 1907; russus Miller, 1907; rutilons Miller, 1907; segurae Miller, 1909; silanus Hecht, 1931; subalpinus Burg, 1920; talahutky Brass, 1911; typicus Barrett-Hamilton, 1899; ukrainicus Migulin, 1928; uralensis Ognev, 1935; varius Gmelin, 1789.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Sciurus. For discussion of taxonomy, see Sidorowicz (1971) and Corbet (1978c).

Notes

Published as part of Robert S. Hoffmann & Charles G. Anderson, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 419-465 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 443, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353130

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Biodiversity

Family
Sciuridae
Genus
Sciurus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rodentia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
vulgaris
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sciurus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Hoffmann & Anderson, 1993

References

  • Cabrera, A. 1924. Una nueva forma de caguan de la isla de Borneo. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural, 24: 128 - 131.
  • Kerr, R. 1792. The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; class I: Mammalia. London, J. Murray & R. Faulder, 664 pp.
  • Ognev, S. I. 1935. Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran. Khishchnyei i lastonogie (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii) [Mammals of the USSR and adjacent countries: Carnivora and Pinnipedia (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia)]. Glavpushnina NKVT, Moscow, 3: 1 - 752 (in Russian).
  • Gray, J. E. 1843. List of the specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 216 pp.
  • Bonaparte, C. L. J. L. 1838. Synopsis vertebratorum systematis. Nuovi Annali delle Scienze Naturali, Bologna, 1: 105 - 133.
  • Sidorowicz, J. 1971. Subspecific taxonomy of the squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris L.) in Palaearctic. Zoologische Anzeiger, 187: 123 - 142.
  • Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.