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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER SCIUROMORPHA
--> FAMILY Sciuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Xerinae
--> TRIBE Marmotini
--> GENUS Tamias
--> SUBGENUS Neotamias
SPECIES Tamias (Neotamias) senex
| Author: | J. A. Allen, 1890. | | Citation: | Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 3: 83. | | Common Name: | Shadow Chipmunk | | Type Locality: | "Summit of Donner Pass, Placer Co., Cal[ifornia, USA]." | | Distribution: | Sierra Nevada of EC California and WC Nevada to N coast of California, and NC Oregon (USA). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Neotamias. Elevated from a subspecies of townsendii by Sutton and Nadler (1974); distinction also suggested by Kain (1985), Sutton (1987), and Gannon and Lawlor (1989). Reviewed by Gannon and Forbes (1995, Mammalian Species No. 502). |
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