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Spermophilus adocetus Merriam 1903

Description

Spermophilus adocetus Merriam 1903

Spermophilus adocetus Merriam 1903, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 16: 79.

Type Locality: "La Salada, 40 miles [64 km] south of Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico.".

Vernacular Names: Tropical Ground Squirrel.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Spermophilus adocetus subsp. adocetus Merriam 1903

Subspecies Spermophilus adocetus subsp. infernatus Alvarez and Ramírez-P. 1968

Distribution: E Jalisco, Michoacan, and N Guerrero (WC Mexico).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Notocitellus (A. H. Howell, 1938) or Otospermophilus (Hall, 1981:399); but see also Birney and Genoways (1973) who suggested it is closer to subgenus Ictidomys. Molecular sequence data indicate that adocetus and annulatus are sister species (Harrison et al., 2003), and basal to all other spermophiline ground squirrels, except Ammospermophilus. Reviewed by Best (1995 g, Mammalian Species No. 504).

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 803, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Merriam
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Rodentia
Family
Sciuridae
Genus
Spermophilus
Species
adocetus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Spermophilus adocetus Merriam, 1903 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Howell, A. H. 1938. Revision of the North American ground squirrels, with a classification of the North American Sciuridae. North American Fauna, 56: 1 - 256.
  • Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.
  • Birney, E. C., and H. H. Genoways. 1973. Chromosomes of Spermophilus adocetus (Mammalia, Sciuridae), with comments on the subgeneric affinities of the species. Experientia, 29: 228 - 229.
  • Harrison, R. G., S. M. Bogdanowicz, R. S. Hoffmann, E. Yensen, and P. W. Sherman. 2003. Phylogeny and evolutionary history of the ground squirrels (Rodentia, Marmotinae). Journal of Molecular Evolution, 10 (3): 249 - 276.
  • Best, T. L. 1995 g. Spermophilus adocetus. Mammalian Species, 504: 1 - 4.