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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER RODENTIA
--> SUBORDER SCIUROMORPHA
--> FAMILY Sciuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Sciurinae
--> TRIBE Sciurini
--> GENUS Sciurus
--> SUBGENUS Otosciurus
SPECIES Sciurus (Otosciurus) aberti
| Author: | Woodhouse, 1852. | | Actual Date: | 1853 | | Citation: | Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1852(6): 110, 220. | | Common Name: | Abert's Squirrel | | Type Locality: | "...in the San Francisco Mountains, New Mexico" [= Coconino Co., Arizona, USA]. | | Distribution: | SE Utah, S and W Colorado, extreme SE Wyoming, W and C New Mexico, and Arizona (USA); Chihuahua, Durango, and Sonora (NW Mexico). | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Otosciurus (Hall, 1981:434). Reviewed by Nash and Seaman (1977, Mammalian Species, 80) and by Hoffmeister and Diersing, (1978), whose subspecies allocations are followed here. Post-Pleistocene dispersal analyzed by Davis and Brown (1989). Phylogeography was studied by Lamb et al. (1997), who found two major assemblages. |
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