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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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    nexus Elliot, 1905
    solivagus (A. H. Howell, 1922)

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