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Tamiasciurus mearnsi Townsend 1897
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Tamiasciurus mearnsi Townsend 1897
Tamiasciurus mearnsi Townsend 1897, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 11: 146.
Type Locality: "San Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower California (altitude about 7,000 feet)" [Baja California Norte, Mexico, 2134 m].
Vernacular Names: Mearns's Squirrel.
Distribution: Sierra San Pedro Martir Mtns (Baja California Norte, Mexico).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Formerly included in douglasii; see Lindsay (1981). Arbogast et al. (2001) found that mitochondrial DNA differed only slightly among the three species of Tamiasciurus.
Notes
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, pp. 754-818 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 766, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/91C4B717759630DB830679AF52629BE0 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/E9F17D93A4B189D7AF875554A2F4772D (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231537767 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sciuridae
- Genus
- Tamiasciurus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Townsend
- Species
- mearnsi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tamiasciurus mearnsi Townsend, 1897 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Lindsay, S. L. 1981. Taxonomic and biogeographic relationships of Baja California chickarees (Tamiasciurus). Journal of Mammalogy, 62: 673 - 682.
- Arbogast, B. S., R. A. Browne, and P. D. Weigl. 2001. Evolutionary genetics and Pleistocene biogeography of North American tree squirrels (Tamiasciurus). Journal of Mammalogy, 82 (2): 302 - 319.