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--> SUBGENUS Neotamias
SPECIES Tamias (Neotamias) durangae
Author: | J. A. Allen, 1903. | Citation: | Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 594. | Common Name: | Durango Chipmunk | Type Locality: | "Arroyo de Bucy, Sierra de Candella, ...about 7,500 feet [2,134 m], northwestern Durango, Mexico." | Distribution: | SW Chihuahua to WC Durango; SE Coahuila (Mexico). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Subgenus Neotamias. Formerly included in bulleri; includes solivagus; perhaps conspecific with canipes; see Callahan (1980), who considered both durangae and solivagus, incertae sedis. Reviewed by Best et al. (1993, Mammalian Species No. 437). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
nexus Elliot, 1905 solivagus (A. H. Howell, 1922)
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