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SPECIES Tamiops swinhoei

Author:Milne-Edwards, 1874.
Citation:Rech. Hist. Nat. Mammifères, 1: 308.
Common Name:Swinhoe's Striped Squirrel
Type Locality:"Moupin [Muping]," [= Baoxing, Sichuan, China]. Restricted by G. M. Allen (1940:673) to "Hongchantin...about 6000 feet [1829 m]."
Distribution:Extreme SW Gansu south through Tibet, Sichuan and Yunnan (China) to N Burma and N Vietnam; isolated population in Hebei (China).
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:The form forresti was originally named as a subspecies of T. maritimus, but assigned to swinhoei by Moore and Tate (1965:248).
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SUBSPECIES swinhoei

SUBSPECIES olivaceus

SUBSPECIES spencei

SUBSPECIES vestitus

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